Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD
codeberg.org104 points by modinfo 2 days ago
104 points by modinfo 2 days ago
About a year and a half ago now the developers decided to completely rewrite Ly, porting it from C to Zig
https://codeberg.org/fairyglade/ly/commit/d8d2d5a8bfa8907451...
I'm using this just because of the Doom animation. It's just too (zero)cool to start the day as if it was a scene from the Hackers movie.
Anyone else just not use any DM? The user/password prompt is sufficient for me and then my shell calls startx when initialized from the tty. It was mostly due to laziness that I did not feel like experimenting with any when I first migrated to Linux but then I just never felt the need to install one. My PC boots, asks me for user/password, then boots the X session and Cinnamon DE.
Never bothered to set one up either! I type `startx` and get dumped into dwm. (Udiskie is a nice addition for automounting drives too.)
I also type "startx". Never saw the point of a display manager (which might be my own shortcoming!).
Yup, but I still have graphics start on a tty ;) I just don't have a login because I use an ephemeral OS (custom alpine base) with runit. It's like windows 95 all over again, you start the computer and that's it, use it. Highly recommended, no passwords just yubikeys
It's great to see this pop up once in a while on HN. Nice to see that it's been rewritten in Zig !
I switched to Ly a few weeks ago, after SDDM kept crashing. And I switched to SDDM because GDM did the same thing earlier. They both were caught in some kind of crash-loop that it was impossible for me to switch to another virtual console.
Now I have 0 issues.
I use this on NixOS[0] with the Matrix digital rain animation and enjoy it way too much :)
[0] https://github.com/eudoxia0/dotfiles/blob/a812dd5b5e62e53b30...
How did you get this to work? (See the config and did this before but never got ly to work on nixos, i migth have just been to early i guess)
Ive been using LY on arch for a while, and it is great looking, when it works, but it has lots of issues. Mostly related to multi monitor, kernel warnings filling up the screen, and for all being just sligthly broken. But then again probably user error.
I use lemurs, seems pretty similar.