tuigreet VS ly

Check out https://github.com/apognu/tuigreet if you want a terminal based display manager.

Many PRs have been opened to add Ly to the repos, they've all been rejected because of the submodule thing and because it's had some severe technical issues. I really don't understand this subreddit's obsession with that specific greeter. If you want something in the repos that provides an almost identical interface, use greetd + tuigreet.

i like greetd using tuigreet

Relevant Github issue.

However, from what I understand, I think that setxkbmap only sets the layout after starting Xorg. Infact when I first boot the computer and get to my display manager tuigreet (which is a TUI application that runsi in a tty), I have to type my credentials in QWERTY because of course Xorg has not started yet.

I like it because it just works. Install the packages, set greetd to use tuigreet, enable the greetd service, and you're done. Also subjectively I like the UI better.

https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/greetd https://github.com/apognu/tuigreet

Knowing the alternative tuigreet (https://github.com/apognu/tuigreet), there won't be much of a difference between a video and the given screenshot. You have a prompt, you enter username and password and your Wayland compositor/X session starts up.

I forked it and patched some runit problems I found when installing in void, they are in https://github.com/brunorro/ly

The only thing that I still have to compile on my own was ly (this fork theorically works out of the box with runit https://github.com/brunorro/ly). I don't know how to package it because it relies on git submodules. If anyone could give me some pointers about that kind of stuff on xbps-source I'll try to pack it (AUR recipes are more chaotic and anarchic but for this kind of stuff that is good)