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Destop Manager (DM).
There a couple of them. Gnome has it's preferred, I'd risk KDE has its own (was never a user of KDE), there is LightDM, etc.
And they tend to dislike eachother
LightDM says it's a Display Manager.
I know that naming is hard but, oh my..., terms are so confusing when you're starting:
... I'm still not sure which ones are synonyms, sub categories or independent components :/.
Always messed those up but I'm not ashamed.
I've used Linux for about a decade and I still mix them up sometimes if I'm not actively working with them
There are just too many terms, just give enough context and people will understand it regardless tho!