The brand-new display manager, LightDM, has been introduced by Canonical in the current development release of the Ubuntu 11.10 operating system. With last night's updates, the current development release of the upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system got a brand new and slick login manager, called LightDM. LightDM i... (read more)
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Since Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric, LightDM replaces GDM as the default display manager.If you want to manage lightdm you can use Simple LightDM Manager.Currently this tool only supports chaging background and logo
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LightDM the new display manager for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric, comes to replace the old GDM, LightDM is known as a ligher and more customizable one.With the arrival of Ubuntu LightDM 11.10 Oneiric also came many new mockups, one of them was made famous by Robert Handmaids, a Canonical developer who created a 3D animation of the LightDM.
Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric ocelot) uses LightDM, a simple, light weight and fast login manager (older versions of Ubuntu were based on gdm (Gnome Display Manager)). Ubuntu 11.10 has arrived (currently beta 2 has released, final would be released on Oct 13, 2011) changes, including some changes in selection of default applications.
Linux mint cinnamon 1.4 released with "MDM display manager".It is based on the code of GDM2.20.It provides:-
Graphical configuration tools
Themeability
Remote, automatic and timed login
Event scripting
Language selection
And it comes with more features than any other Display Manager currently available.
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So How can I use MDM instead of lightDM on Ubuntu?
MDM 1.0.6 is a new Display Manager developed with code is based on GNOME Display Manager 2.20. It provides UI (User Interface) configuration tools, themeability, remote, automatic and timed login, event scripting, language selection and it comes with more features than any other Display Manager currently available
Attached a screenshot of not-so-frequently arising problem which completely makes the user not to login to the display manager(lightdm) in ubuntu. Not logging into display manager makes the user to use only CLI which the non-tech people like school teachers can't do.
It’s not commended to enable and login as root user in Ubuntu Linux. sudo command can do most works if you need super user privilege. But if you do need or have a good reason to login Ubuntu as root, here’s a way to login root via LightDM. Do it at your own risk!
Since Ubuntu 11.10, the default display manager was changed to LightDM.