It contains standard desktop entry files for each desktop environment or window manager. Many display managers read available sessions from /usr/share/xsessions/ directory. All polkit actions like suspending the system or mounting external drives will work out of the box. In order to check the status of your user session, you can use loginctl. $ file /etc/systemd/system/rvice /etc/systemd/system/rvice: symbolic link to /usr/lib/systemd/system/rvice You may need to use -force to override old symlinks. See systemd#Change default target to boot into.Īfter enabling SDDM a symlink rvice should be set in /etc/systemd/system/. If not, you might have to reset a custom default.target symlink to point to the default graphical.target. To enable graphical login, enable the appropriate systemd service. || greetd AUR Loading the display manager greetd - Login daemon which supports both console and graphical greeters.XDM - X display manager with support for XDMCP, host chooser.SDDM - QML-based display manager and successor to KDM recommended for Plasma and LXQt.

Can be used independent of the LXDE desktop environment. LightDM - Cross-desktop display manager, can use various front-ends written in any toolkit.Entrance - Enlightenment display manager.loginx - A getty/login/xinit combination with a friendly curses ui.emptty - Simple CLI Display Manager on TTY with X and Wayland support.tbsm - A Bash session or application launcher.Ly - TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD.nodm - Display manager for automatic logins (unmaintained since 2017).Console TDM - Extension for xinit written in pure Bash.

3.2 Starting applications without a window manager.

Desktop manager