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| ly | sx | |
|---|---|---|
| 38 | 12 | |
| 4,565 | 226 | |
| 3.1% | - | |
| 4.3 | 4.5 | |
| 4 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
| C | Roff | |
| Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ly
Posts with mentions or reviews of ly.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.
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Changing from GDDM to Ly display manager on the Fedora Sway Spin
So I'm looking to change from SDDM to Ly. I'm using the Sway Fedora spin. How do I do this seemlessly so that my system continues to work correctly?
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Which loginmanager to use?
I prefer ly, because it's simple.
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GRUB config
Display manager I'm using ly that should launch Qtile via the desktop entry residing at /usr/share/wayland-sessions/qtile-wayland.desktop, using qtile- start -b wayland.
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Ly crashes if password is wrong twice
I made a pull request some time ago ( https://github.com/fairyglade/ly/pull/479). In some places the tty was hardcoded and it didn't read it from the /etc/ly/config.ini file.
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TTY as login screen
I use ly
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Ly display manager in Fedora.
I installed ly display manager in Fedora 37 following the instructions provided in their github page. I disabled the gdm service by sudo systemctl disable gdm.service and enabled ly service with sudo systemctl enable ly.service.
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Window manager suggestion for arch newbie
In general, it's tough to go too wrong, and with a good display manager you should be able to switch between them painlessly for experimenting with. (I like ly for a minimal setup!)
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How to install Ly on Void from a base install
https://github.com/fairyglade/ly Read the steps on here.
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Is there a minimal working demo of greetd with wlgreet?
I've tried to make some other DMs work, except from SDDM and greetd. I see a bunch of packages done by enthusiasts but I don't find any example usage. Like there was a ly(https://github.com/fairyglade/ly) pakage out there but I don't know how it should work.
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git clone not working?
I was try to install the ly display manager after freshly installing arch. I installed git, and after attempting to do the command $ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/fairyglade/ly
sx
Posts with mentions or reviews of sx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.
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TTY as login screen
There's also another project that wraps Xinit - sx
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Linux needs an intuitive way to set global environmental variables (AKA getting touchscreen gestures enabled in Firefox is way too difficult)
Someone did: https://github.com/Earnestly/sx
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I use arch, btw
I use sx btw. The entire source code is under 45 lines of posix shell
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Is this a Linux way of saying "Your pass is weak" ?
Anyware, here is the git repo https://github.com/Earnestly/sx. Read the README file first.
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Starting XServer
sx anything else is dumb
- Using bash within xinitrc
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NVIDIA Linux Gaming Performance For Wayland vs. X.Org On Ubuntu 22.04
Well I use sx which is a simple alternative to startx + xinit. Then launch gwe in my sxrc (equivalent to xinitrc in this case).
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Emoji characters and symbol characters not displayed
I use a minimal setup with dvm, st and sx to start xorg.
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systemd-startxd
Here is link number 1 - Previous text "sx"
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Can I just use xorg without lightdm or xinit?
You don't need a display manager, but you do need xinit/startx or an equivalent program like sx, which I would highly recommend as more minimal alternative.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ly and sx you can also consider the following projects:
tuigreet - Graphical console greeter for greetd
linux-init - Emacs org-file based suite of Linux config files and scripts
emptty - Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY
x11docker - Run GUI applications and desktops in docker and podman containers. Focus on security.
lemurs - A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust 🐒
st - build of the suckless simple terminal with patches for alpha, font2, copyurl, openclipboard, invert, appsync, xresources, scrollback, w3m, keyboard select, boxdraw
ly-void - TUI display manager for Linux Void
awesome - awesome window manager
manjaro-sway - manjaro linux with wayland 🖼, sway 🌴 and a lot of ♥
OctoBTT - OctoBTT
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11
i3 - A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features. :warning: i3-gaps has been merged into i3.