tuigreet VS yofi

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

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.

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 recently added a support for HiDPI (already included in 0.1.3), which should handle the issue. However, if you have a fractional scaling like myself, you need to set scaling factor in config manually. (A little bit tech details: wayland protocol uses integer, not float for scaling, therefore app retrieves scaling factor 1 instead of e.g. 1.7).

So you want to pass argument(s) to the program, right? That's a little bit messy, because sometimes you want to launch an app that contains multiple words and another time an app with some arguments. Personally don't really like the implicit way of handling that (e.g. as it done in rofi), so I'd like to consider an explicit argument separation via special characters, take a look at this issue.

They are disabled by default, you need to enable them in config (last section at readme).