Re: which display manager would you suggest for Stretch?
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:44 AM, Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.de> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> since kdm is not in anymore I wonder which display manager
> to consider for Stretch?
>
> No assumption about the desktop environment should be made.
> The local Debian users are free to choose.
>
> Of course I saw https://wiki.debian.org/DisplayManager, but
> it appears to be out-of-date. And it doesn't give a
> recommendation.
>
>
> Every helpful comment is highly appreciated
> Harri
>
Short answer:
gdm3 is the most the popular display manager with lightdm, sddm trailing behind.
Long answer:
I have been in this type of situation many times where I was looking
for a recommended(?) tool to accomplish a particular task (ex:- what
is the best IDE to write python programs?). One way to address this is
to see what tools are currently popular and then start exploring the
most popular ones first.
Coming back to your question, I did
% apt-cache search display manager --names-only | popsort.py
22060 nodm - automatic display manager
21307 wdm - WINGs Display Manager - an xdm replacement with a WindowMaker look
18484 lxdm - LXDE display manager
10218 slim - desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11
9363 xdm - X display manager
4337 sddm - modern display manager for X11
1999 lightdm - simple display manager
1595 gdm3 - GNOME Display Manager
Here the apt-cache command lists the packages with words "display",
"manager" in their names. The output is piped to the python script,
popsort.py which ranks the lines by popularity (the lower the number,
the more popular it is). This shows gdm3 is the most popular one with
lightdm and sddm trailing behind. So, you can start exploring them
first and see if they fit your needs.
The popsort.py utility is written by me. It can be downloaded from
https://gitlab.com/d3k2mk7/rutils/blob/master/bin/popsort.py and is
documented at http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Sort_output_of_apt-cache_search_by_popularity
. I would appreciate if you have any feedback/comments/criticism on
this script (no matter how small you think it is).
Cheers
raju
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