Simple Desktop Display Manager

Simple Desktop Display Manager
Original author(s)	Abdurrahman Avci
Developer(s)	Abdurrahman Avci, KDE, LXDE/LXQt team, Maui project
Initial release	19 March 2013; 12 years ago
Stable release	0.12.0 / 20 November 2014; 10 years ago
Repository	github.com/sddm/sddm ;
Written in	C++11
Type	Session manager
License	GPL-2.0+
Website	github.com/sddm

Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) is a display manager (a graphical login program) for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland.^[4] SDDM was written from scratch in C++11 and supports theming via QML.^[5]

SDDM is free and open-source software subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public License version two or later.

Adoption

In 2013, Fedora KDE members decided to default to SDDM in Fedora 21.^[6]

Simple Desktop Display Manager was adopted as default graphical login program by Hawaii.^[7]

KDE chose SDDM to be the successor of the KDE Display Manager for KDE Plasma 5.^[7]^[8]

The LXQt developers recommend SDDM as display manager.^[9]

^ Pier Luigi Fiorini. "plfiorini's blog".
^ "Release v0.1.0". GitHub. 19 January 2013.
^ "0.11.0 Release Announcement". GitHub. 20 November 2014.
^ "0.12.0-Release-Announcement".
^ "SDDM: A Lightweight QML-Based Display Manager". 19 January 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
^ Rex Dieter (26 November 2013). "Rex's Blog".
^ ^a ^b "Display Managers In Plasma 5". 3 November 2014.
^ 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 ...

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