ly
display manager with console UI (by fairyglade)
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A window manager for X11 (by bbidulock)
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| ly | blackboxwm | |
|---|---|---|
| 38 | 3 | |
| 4,565 | 152 | |
| 3.1% | - | |
| 4.3 | 3.2 | |
| 4 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
| C | C++ | |
| Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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
blackboxwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of blackboxwm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-24.
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Window manager suggestion for arch newbie
I loved Blackbox's configuration, however it's been deprecated in favor of Openbox, which is WAY less friendly. BB has a modern fork which works for the most part, but expect corner-cases.
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Paradox of ligher Desktop Managers
Your link does look like the one from Wikipedia: https://github.com/bbidulock/blackboxwm
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ly and blackboxwm you can also consider the following projects:
tuigreet - Graphical console greeter for greetd
tinyformat - Minimal, type safe printf replacement library for C++
emptty - Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar [Moved to: https://github.com/polybar/polybar]
lemurs - A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust 🐒
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
ly-void - TUI display manager for Linux Void
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
manjaro-sway - manjaro linux with wayland 🖼, sway 🌴 and a lot of ♥
libcfg-cpp - A minimalistic configuration manager for C++ projects.
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11
dotfiles - my dotfiles for my dev setup