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Ly – A TUI Display Manager

by maydemir on 5/21/22, 4:00 PM with 22 comments

• by nickloewen on 5/21/22, 8:44 PM

  I made a quick survey of text-based display managers a couple days ago. Ly looks fantastic, but I went with tbsm, which had almost no dependencies and was super simple to get going.

  https://github.com/loh-tar/tbsm

  http://loh-tar.github.io/tbsm/

• by ducktective on 5/21/22, 6:26 PM

  1- Tangential, Why "login manager" is called display manager in Linux-speak?

  2- Isn't it better to use a login manager that is 1- graphical and 2- uses the same GUI tech as your DE (for example gtk for xfce/gnome and qt for KDE) so the actual GUI apps could be hot-loaded in memory and the initial cold-runs of programs could be faster?

  Thanks for the project. Seems clean.

• by seqizz on 5/21/22, 6:21 PM

  I envy nice display managers, they're the nostalgia for me.

  I'm not using one for a long time, thanks to disk encryption and auto-login.

• by this_is_eline on 5/21/22, 8:58 PM

  It 'just works', but its so 'ligth' with features that you might as well use xinit with startx.

• by gigatexal on 5/21/22, 4:23 PM

  Anyone got video of this in action?