LightDM Display Manager In Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot | Screenshots | Video Preview

July 13, 2011 in Applications, Development, News

A sneak peek for LightDM ” Light Display Manager ” which replace GDM ” Gnome Display Manager ” in Upcoming release of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. Let’s check few screenshots and video preview.

LightDM is a lightweight X display manager, main purpose of using LightDM to authenticate user accounts to get access to different desktop interfaces.

Unity Greeter is a login screen applications for Unity interface, recently Unity Greeter package added to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot repository.

LightDM In ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Screenshots

LightDM In Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Video Preview

Ubuntu 11.10 Latest Updates Revealed The New LightDM Login Theme | Video Preview ”Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 3″

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Baur #

nice!

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Alibaba #

nice

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patrick quinn #

I like the idea of using web technology, its standardized yet give distributors like the Ubuntu team a simple method to create great UX for things like Login managers and so on. ( Yes i know they are using the GTK variant, just stating a point)

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Heldgaardolesen #

Does Light DM use each users desktop background as background? Because that would be really cool

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Marco Dahms #

Is now default!

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Wayne #

Lookin sweet. Hoping they improve (smoothen) the transition (from one user to another) and also put a user picture (avatar)

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Maarten #

How do you take the screenshot?

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Rik Boland #

I have reached the step before the login and it displays a terminal window how do I progress?

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syncdram #

what about the white dots? just don’t understand there thinking anylonger

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