Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) is a display manager (a graphical login program) for the X11 and Wayland windowing systems.[5] SDDM was written from scratch in C++11 and supports theming via QML.[6]
Original author(s) | Abdurrahman Avci |
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Developer(s) | Abdurrahman Avci, KDE, LXQt, Liri[1] |
Initial release | 19 March 2013[2] |
Stable release | 0.21.0[3]
/ 26 February 2024 |
Repository | |
Written in | C++, QML |
Platform | Unix-like |
Type | X display manager |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later[4] |
Website | github |
SDDM is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.[4]
Adoption
editIn 2013, Fedora KDE members decided to default to SDDM in Fedora 21.[7]
KDE chose SDDM to be the successor of the KDE Display Manager for KDE Plasma 5.[8][9]
The LXQt developers recommend SDDM as a display manager.[10]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Pier Luigi Fiorini (2014). "plfiorini's blog".
- ^ "Release v0.1.0". GitHub. 19 January 2013.
- ^ "Release 0.21.0". 26 February 2024. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
- ^ a b "README.md". GitHub.
- ^ "0.12.0-Release-Announcement". GitHub.
- ^ "SDDM: A Lightweight QML-Based Display Manager". 19 January 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
- ^ Rex Dieter (26 November 2013). "Rex's Blog".
- ^ "Display Managers In Plasma 5". 3 November 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-08-27.
- ^ Larabel, Michael (3 November 2014). "SDDM Is The Recommended Display Manager Of KDE Plasma 5". Phoronix. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- ^ Leclanche, Jerome (2013-10-30). "[Lxde-list] CALL FOR TESTERS: LXQt now available for testing". sourceforge.net. SourceForge. Retrieved 2015-08-08.
... For a display manager, SDDM is recommended ...