LightDM Review

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Review of LightDM powered by the Slant community.

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Pros

Pro
Beautiful interface

Some greeters such as the Unity Greeter look absolutely beautiful on LightDM.

Pro
Theme variety

There are a wide variety of themes available for LightDM, from console-like UIs to ones that utilize webkit2 to create flashy and dynamic login interfaces.

Pro
Best balance

Best interoperability, best balance between functionality and bloat, simplicity and candy, not distribution or GUI-tied.

Cons

Con
Not really lightweight

How lightweight it is depends on the used greeter, but they all require much more dependencies than other lightweight greeters like XDM or SLiM.

Con
Poor/missing documentation

Con
Feature creep

Most people don't need (or even know) all features of LightDM.

Con
Autologin never worked

After 4 years of using LightDM, I never managed to make it autologin my user in the system and there are always problems with the graphics driver. Crashes too often and requires manual restarting which is dull. Not to mention the developers update it once in a leap-year.