ly
display manager with console UI (by fairyglade)
manjaro-sway
manjaro linux with wayland 🖼, sway 🌴 and a lot of ♥ (by manjaro-sway)
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| ly | manjaro-sway | |
|---|---|---|
| 38 | 29 | |
| 4,565 | 675 | |
| 3.4% | 2.1% | |
| 4.3 | 9.3 | |
| 5 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| C | HTML | |
| 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
manjaro-sway
Posts with mentions or reviews of manjaro-sway.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-31.
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Should I continue to sway and wayland or return back to x11 i3?
I added a really short example for a keyboard configuration to our support document: https://github.com/manjaro-sway/manjaro-sway/blob/main/SUPPORT.md
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Help with Manjaro Sway Edition
Your best bet is checking the Manjaro Sway GitHub at https://github.com/manjaro-sway/manjaro-sway You can search the Issues to see if anyone else is running into the same error or check the FAQ.
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Which version of Linux Mint should I install on a semi garbage tier laptop for playing older games on?
If you want to see how nicely configured Sway looks like, then download the Manjaro Sway into your Ventoy2Disk formatted usb and try it by booting in Live mode: https://manjaro-sway.download/
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[Manjaro Linux] Comment puis-je créer un USB amorçable de manjaro de manjaro?
[https://manjaro-sway.download/
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Manjaro Sway users, we need your input!
Full discussion on GitHub- manjaro-sway/manjaro-sway/discussions/459
- Fullscreen on 2 monitors.
- Rofi .config gets overwritten
- I just installed yesterday what's going on?
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i use manjaro, convince me to switch
Thanks for the honorable mention of Manjaro Sway edition! I always look a little towards nix, void an Solus too, but loosing the aur would be to big of a sacrifice for me.
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So what are you guys using in stead of the Pi
Yep, though I tend to use Sway.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ly and manjaro-sway you can also consider the following projects:
tuigreet - Graphical console greeter for greetd
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
emptty - Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY
desktop-settings - forked desktop settings with sway profile
lemurs - A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust 🐒
Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
ly-void - TUI display manager for Linux Void
sddm - QML based X11 and Wayland display manager
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11
labwc - A Wayland window-stacking compositor
tbsm - A pure bash session or application launcher. Inspired by cdm, tdm and krunner
wayland-protocols - Wayland protocol development (mirror)