Cdm

A console based display manager for linux/bsd.
Written in bash.

NOTE:

interestingly, since xorg is not running yet, you may be able to change the xorg.conf that is loaded for each entry..

Documentation

github

https://github.com/evertiro/cdm

Tutorials

arch wiki

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CDM

Locations

/etc/cdmrc	system config
~/.config/cdm/cdmrc	user config
/usr/share/doc/cdm/themes/*	themes

Configuration

cdm is configured with 3x arrays.
entries in each array at the same index refer to the same login choice.

# (~/.config/cdm|/etc/)cdmrc

# startx ${THIS_COMMAND}
binlist=(
    "/bin/zsh -i"  # console
)

# name of each choice
namelist=(
    "tty" 
    "i3" 
    "openbox"
)

# if choice requires an X-session, or is a console
flaglist=(
    C
    X
    X
)