ly
display manager with console UI (by fairyglade)
lemurs
A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust 🐒 (by coastalwhite)
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| ly | lemurs | |
|---|---|---|
| 38 | 6 | |
| 4,565 | 587 | |
| 3.1% | - | |
| 4.3 | 7.2 | |
| 5 days ago | 18 days ago | |
| C | Rust | |
| Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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
lemurs
Posts with mentions or reviews of lemurs.
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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Which loginmanager to use?
I've settled on Lemurs.
- [Announcement] Lemurs v0.3.1: Increased stability, better Wayland support, and many quality-of-life changes
- Announcing Lemurs v0.3.0 with Wayland support, an AUR package, overall improved stability, and much more!
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Lemurs 0.2.0. Massively improved stability, caching usernames, and more...
Lemurs is a customizable TUI Login/Display manager for Linux written in Rust.
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A TUI display/login manager written in Rust
A couple of days ago, I had an idea to write a very customizable TUI Display/Login manager in purely Rust. This is kinda inspired by Ly. I got to work and here is the working proof-of-concept. https://github.com/coastalwhite/lemurs
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ly and lemurs you can also consider the following projects:
tuigreet - Graphical console greeter for greetd
stratawm - A cutting-edge, robust and sleek Wayland compositor with batteries included. [Moved to: https://github.com/StrataWM/strata]
emptty - Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY
ixwindow - Iconized xwindow module for Polybar (for bspwm and i3wm)
ly-void - TUI display manager for Linux Void
kitkat - Kit-kat clock utility rewritten in Rust using minifb
manjaro-sway - manjaro linux with wayland 🖼, sway 🌴 and a lot of ♥
fig - An animated wallpaper tool for gifs
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11
leftwm-layouts
tbsm - A pure bash session or application launcher. Inspired by cdm, tdm and krunner
fireplace - Modular wayland window manager written in rust