QDM

QDM is a terminal user interface(TUI) display/login manager written in Python(3.10) for Linux.

Features

• choose between different desktop environments(DE)
  and window managers(WM) via /usr/share/xsessions/*.desktop files
  (TODO: wayland-session, bash shell and xinit).
• multiple user login options via /etc/passwd
• ASCII art style animations.

Why

This DM is heavily inspired by/shamelessly ripped off of Ly another TUI DM.
The reason QDM exists is because Ly's code base is not as actively maintained as before and relies on a number of unwieldy/unnecessary dependencies.

QDM is a hobby project and security is not my strong suit so feel free to critique that.

Dependencies

• python (tested on 3.10)
• systemd
• pamd
• python-pam (tested with 2.0.2)
• Xorg/X11
• only tested with Qtile(X11) wm and KDE Plasma(X11) so far

files and paths that are expected to exist

• /etc/passwd
• /etc/qdm/
• /etc/pam.d/
• /usr/lib/systemd/system/
• /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service

Install

• No package manager support sorry :(
• download zip off github or clone repo
• copy contents of ./etc/ to /etc/
• symlink qdm.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/qdm.service
• symlink /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service to qdm.service
• change envars in envars.json to match your system

Config

• all values in quotes
• default_session: the value of name= in the xsession .desktop file
• default_username: your username lowercase
• menu_color: ansi escape sequence in quotes ("\u001b[34m" = blue)
• install path and etc path are temporary
• xauth and mcookie paths. See xauth(1) man for more details

TODO

• systemd/logind/pam vs not those
• default config files in /etc/qdm/
• wayland-session