Why Are Linux Login Screens Called Display Managers??
LightDM, SDDM, GDM, all of those provide Linux login screens but we call them Display Managers, why though? They don’t manage our screen shouldn’t they be called login or session managers instead. Like everything involving X those is a 30 year old reason.
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Why Are They Display Managers: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/xee8xr/why_do_we_call_them_display_managers/
X Login Screen: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/my2tj9/why_do_we_call_that_login_screen_a_display/
X Display Manager Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_display_manager
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