Simple Desktop Display Manager
Display manager for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland
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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]
| Simple Desktop Display Manager | |
|---|---|
| Original author | Abdurrahman Avci |
| Developers | Abdurrahman Avci, KDE, LXQt, Liri[1] |
| Initial release | 19 March 2013[2] |
| Stable release | |
| Written in | C++, QML |
| Platform | Unix-like |
| Type | X display manager |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later[4] |
| Website | github |
| Repository | |
SDDM is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.[4]
Adoption
In 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] In 2023, KDE forked SDDM to form the basis of the new Plasma Login Manager, which will become KDE's default login manager starting with Plasma 6.6.[10][11]
The LXQt developers recommend SDDM as a display manager.[12]