How To Install lxdm on Fedora 34

lxdm is Lightweight X11 Display Manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lxdm on Fedora 34.

What is `lxdm`

LXDM is the future display manager of LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop environment. It is designed as a lightweight alternative to replace GDM or KDM in LXDE distros. It’s still in very early stage of development.

We can use yum or dnf to install lxdm on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lxdm.

Install lxdm on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install lxdm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lxdm

Install lxdm on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install lxdm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lxdm

How To Uninstall lxdm on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the lxdm package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lxdm

lxdm Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/lxdm
/etc/lxdm/LoginReady
/etc/lxdm/PostLogin
/etc/lxdm/PostLogout
/etc/lxdm/PreLogin
/etc/lxdm/PreReboot
/etc/lxdm/PreShutdown
/etc/lxdm/Xsession
/etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf
/etc/lxdm/xinitrc
/etc/pam.d/lxdm
/run/lxdm
/usr/bin/lxdm-config
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/0401c2701d1ffa6ff09993670d930a29f09997
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/ccb408067706b70de5fc85101821472ad5a41c
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/204e8d09a6bd7f42c6e15777128a5d5a15fd4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/80fca06a9154baec395a28978caaf601e294ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/ae0bd86c38629cfec160241549d7d2180a4103
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/a153100586f7f58c06605f6cacf777b1d0f83b
/usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/83-fedora-lxdm.preset
/usr/lib/systemd/system/lxdm.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/lxdm.conf
/usr/libexec/lxdm-greeter-gdk
/usr/libexec/lxdm-greeter-gtk
/usr/libexec/lxdm-numlock
/usr/libexec/lxdm-session
/usr/sbin/lxdm
/usr/sbin/lxdm-binary
/usr/share/doc/lxdm
/usr/share/doc/lxdm/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lxdm/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/lxdm/README
/usr/share/doc/lxdm/TODO
/usr/share/doc/lxdm/gpl-2.0.txt
/usr/share/doc/lxdm/lgpl-2.1.txt
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fo/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/lg/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ps/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/tt_RU/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur_PK/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/lxdm.mo
/usr/share/lxdm
/usr/share/lxdm/config.ui
/usr/share/lxdm/lxdm.glade
/usr/share/lxdm/themes
/usr/share/lxdm/themes/Industrial
/usr/share/lxdm/themes/Industrial/greeter-gtk3.ui
/usr/share/lxdm/themes/Industrial/greeter.ui
/usr/share/lxdm/themes/Industrial/gtk.css
/usr/share/lxdm/themes/Industrial/gtkrc
/usr/share/lxdm/themes/Industrial/index.theme
/usr/share/lxdm/themes/Industrial/lang.png
/usr/share/lxdm/themes/Industrial/login.png
/usr/share/lxdm/themes/Industrial/nobody.png
/usr/share/lxdm/themes/Industrial/session.png
/usr/share/lxdm/themes/Industrial/shade.png
/usr/share/lxdm/themes/Industrial/wave.svg
/var/lib/lxdm
/var/lib/lxdm.conf

References

lxdm website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lxdm on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.