Simple Desktop Display Manager
{{Short description|Display manager for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland}}
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| author = Abdurrahman Avci
| developer = Abdurrahman Avci, KDE, LXQt, [https://liri.io Liri]{{cite web|url=http://plfiorini.blogspot.com/2014/10/maui-using-kde-frameworks-5.html|title=plfiorini's blog|author=Pier Luigi Fiorini|year=2014 }}
| released = {{Start date and age|2013|03|19|df=yes}}{{cite web |url=https://github.com/sddm/sddm/releases/tag/v0.1.0 |title=Release v0.1.0 |work=GitHub |date=19 January 2013 }}
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| programming language = C++, QML
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| genre = X display manager
| license = GPL-2.0-or-later{{cite web|url=https://github.com/sddm/sddm/blob/develop/README.md|title=README.md|website=GitHub }}
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Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) is a display manager (a graphical login program) for the X11 and Wayland windowing systems.{{cite web |url=https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.12.0-Release-Announcement |title=0.12.0-Release-Announcement|website=GitHub }} SDDM was written from scratch in C++11 and supports theming via QML.{{cite web |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI3ODc |title=SDDM: A Lightweight QML-Based Display Manager |date=19 January 2013 |access-date=5 March 2014 }}
SDDM is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
Adoption
In 2013, Fedora KDE members decided to default to SDDM in Fedora 21.{{cite web|url=http://rdieter.blogspot.com/2013/11/sddm-change-pushed-back-to-fedora-21.html|title=Rex's Blog|author=Rex Dieter |date=26 November 2013 }}
KDE chose SDDM to be the successor of the KDE Display Manager for KDE Plasma 5.{{cite web |url=http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/display_managers_finale |title=Display Managers In Plasma 5 |date=3 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150827124914/http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/display_managers_finale |archive-date=2015-08-27 }}{{cite news|last=Larabel|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Larabel|date=3 November 2014|title=SDDM Is The Recommended Display Manager Of KDE Plasma 5|url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgyOTU|newspaper=Phoronix|access-date=3 November 2014}}
The LXQt developers recommend SDDM as a display manager.{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/mailman/message/31580081/ |title=[Lxde-list] CALL FOR TESTERS: LXQt now available for testing |last1=Leclanche |first1=Jerome |date=2013-10-30 |website=sourceforge.net |publisher=SourceForge |access-date=2015-08-08 |quote=... For a display manager, SDDM is recommended ...}}
See also
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