On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:44 AM, Harald Dunkel <[email protected]> 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 it appears to be out-of-date.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 -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog
