<![CDATA[Dev1 Galaxy Forum / Please, reccommend me a display-manager that isn't garbage]]> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7979 Sat, 16 May 2026 23:51:08 +0000 FluxBB <![CDATA[Please, reccommend me a display-manager that isn't garbage]]> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=63863#p63863 * Can launch both X and wayland sessions (primarily plasma, with options for e.g. icewm or FVWM on X11), without itself requiring an Xserver (wayland-native GUI or console TUI is fine).
* Provides menus (again, GUI or TUI is fine) for username and session type / command.
* Isn't abandoned/dormant/full of never fixed bugs and unmerged pull requests (tuigreet, sddm).
* Exhibits reliable, repeatable, deterministic behaviour when launched from either/both sysvinit and openrc (sddm).
* Does not, under any circumstances, crash and leave my TTY in an unusable state (again, sddm).
* Doesn't entail writing wrapper scripts, manually setting common environment variables, or more hand-configuration than some entire operating systems (most of greetd & co).
* Isn't written in zig, go, rust, or some other trendy "modern" language that requires 900MB of tooling and 1200 "crates" to build a text-box.
* Isn't GTK4.

About the closest I can find is lidm, I mean I have no idea if it'll be rewritten from-scratch next month like everything else, but at least it's not written in zig...

Anything else?

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