ly
display manager with console UI (by fairyglade)
emptty
Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY (by tvrzna)
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| ly | emptty | |
|---|---|---|
| 38 | 12 | |
| 4,565 | 618 | |
| 3.1% | - | |
| 4.3 | 6.9 | |
| 4 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
| C | Go | |
| Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License | MIT License |
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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
emptty
Posts with mentions or reviews of emptty.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-09.
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Sway
There are multiple ways to start sway however; I use the following - https://github.com/tvrzna/emptty
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GTK apps taking ages to startup
I had this problem recently as an i3 user + https://github.com/tvrzna/emptty as a DM. Could also repro with Sway.
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Ly crashes if password is wrong twice
I cannot believe nobody recommended emptty - https://github.com/tvrzna/emptty
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Flatpaks not showing in krunner when using emppty
exact details
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launch xmonad with xsessions
Not to be that guy, but mind I suggest more minimal / no-nonsense display managers like greetd or emptty?
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IT Pro Tuesday #196 - Certificate Tool, Video Capture, Network Diagrams & More
emptty is a simple, lightweight CLI Display Manager that gives you a console login screen as an alternative to a typical login manager GUI that displays in place of the default shell at the end of the boot process. Kindly suggested by antyhrabia.
- Make bash my login shell
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GanTTY - project management from the terminal
For first moment, I thought it's new login manager like empTTY.
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Minimal display managers for arch?
I now use emptty, previously used SDDM.
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Anyone knows how to autologin without a display manager?
emptty has an autologin option and is packaged in void repos.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ly and emptty you can also consider the following projects:
tuigreet - Graphical console greeter for greetd
ly - display manager with console UI [Moved to: https://github.com/fairyglade/ly]
lemurs - A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust 🐒
dive - A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
ly-void - TUI display manager for Linux Void
cli - GitHub’s official command line tool
manjaro-sway - manjaro linux with wayland 🖼, sway 🌴 and a lot of ♥
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11
fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder
tbsm - A pure bash session or application launcher. Inspired by cdm, tdm and krunner
obs-studio - OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording