Ly – A TUI Display Manager
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Ly – A TUI Display Manager
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#2Anyone got video of this in action?
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#3I 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.
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#4Anyone got video of this in action?
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.
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#5Anyone got video of this in action?
Maybe this will be helpful.
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#61- 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.
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Re: Ly – A TUI Display Manager
#81- 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.
1. I think the term comes from X11 jargon, where each login session is associated with a display (the thing described by the contents of `$DISPLAY`.
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#91- 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.
I'm interested in trying this out with i3. I've only just started using i3 and the default lightdm display manager (on NixOS) looks and feels out-of-place with it. Ly seems to be a logical next step.
Re: Ly – A TUI Display Manager
#101- 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.
> 2- Isn't it better to use a login manager that is 1- graphical and 2- uses the same GUI tech as your DE
You're assuming everyone using Linux uses a DE.