Which DE do you prefer?

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  • ly-void

    TUI display manager for Linux Void

  • What DM are you using? I tried to compile both ly-void and normal ly according to this guide.

  • ly

    Discontinued display manager with console UI [Moved to: https://github.com/fairyglade/ly] (by nullgemm)

  • What DM are you using? I tried to compile both ly-void and normal ly according to this guide.

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  • void-packages

    The Void source packages collection

  • There's an xbps-src template in this PR that should allow you to compile and install ly properly.

  • dot

  • Hi! Sorry for the late reply. I use it without any DM, see https://github.com/cschmatzler/dot for my dotfiles, and the .config/fish directory for sway start stuff.

  • bspwm

    A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

  • I now run bspwm, along with sxhkd, picom, and lemonbar, as separate userland runit services; my .xinitrc now reads exec dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 runsvdir -P "${HOME}/.local/service/"

  • sxhkd

    Simple X hotkey daemon

  • I now run bspwm, along with sxhkd, picom, and lemonbar, as separate userland runit services; my .xinitrc now reads exec dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 runsvdir -P "${HOME}/.local/service/"

  • picom

    A lightweight compositor for X11

  • I now run bspwm, along with sxhkd, picom, and lemonbar, as separate userland runit services; my .xinitrc now reads exec dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 runsvdir -P "${HOME}/.local/service/"

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • bar

    A featherweight, lemon-scented, bar based on xcb

  • I now run bspwm, along with sxhkd, picom, and lemonbar, as separate userland runit services; my .xinitrc now reads exec dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 runsvdir -P "${HOME}/.local/service/"

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