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# Blog posts tagged *"GDM"*

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[Will Cooke](https://canonical.com/blog/author/willcooke)

9 June 2017

### [Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 9, 2017](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-desktop-weekly-update-june-9-2017)

Desktop

Ubuntu tech blog

GNOME We’ve made the decision to switch to using GNOME Display Manager (GDM) instead of LightDM. We had planned to try LightDM, and based on our investigations it became apparent that we would need to invest a considerable amount of time making changes to get everything to work correctly, more time than we have. We ...

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