[HN Gopher] Ly - A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manage...
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       Ly - A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and
       BSD
        
       Author : modinfo
       Score  : 93 points
       Date   : 2025-12-01 00:28 UTC (22 hours ago)
        
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       | zetalyrae wrote:
       | I use this on NixOS[0] with the Matrix digital rain animation and
       | enjoy it way too much :)
       | 
       | [0]
       | https://github.com/eudoxia0/dotfiles/blob/a812dd5b5e62e53b30...
        
         | gunalx wrote:
         | How did you get this to work? (See the config and did this
         | before but never got ly to work on nixos, i migth have just
         | been to early i guess)
         | 
         | Ive been using LY on arch for a while, and it is great looking,
         | when it works, but it has lots of issues. Mostly related to
         | multi monitor, kernel warnings filling up the screen, and for
         | all being just sligthly broken. But then again probably user
         | error.
        
           | zetalyrae wrote:
           | NixOS 25.05 had a very old version of Ly that doesn't support
           | the latest config. I switched to NixOS unstable and that
           | worked.
        
       | Oxodao wrote:
       | It's great to see this pop up once in a while on HN. Nice to see
       | that it's been rewritten in Zig !
        
       | diath wrote:
       | Anyone else just not use any DM? The user/password prompt is
       | sufficient for me and then my shell calls startx when initialized
       | from the tty. It was mostly due to laziness that I did not feel
       | like experimenting with any when I first migrated to Linux but
       | then I just never felt the need to install one. My PC boots, asks
       | me for user/password, then boots the X session and Cinnamon DE.
        
         | hecanjog wrote:
         | Never bothered to set one up either! I type `startx` and get
         | dumped into dwm. (Udiskie is a nice addition for automounting
         | drives too.)
        
           | ratrocket wrote:
           | I also type "startx". Never saw the point of a display
           | manager (which might be my own shortcoming!).
        
         | DyslexicAtheist wrote:
         | yepp, running sway as non-root
        
         | dmwilcox wrote:
         | Yup, but I still have graphics start on a tty ;) I just don't
         | have a login because I use an ephemeral OS (custom alpine base)
         | with runit. It's like windows 95 all over again, you start the
         | computer and that's it, use it. Highly recommended, no
         | passwords just yubikeys
        
         | a96 wrote:
         | Switch console, ^z and you got a login shell. Handy for anyone
         | who happends to find your device.
        
       | coolcoder613 wrote:
       | I use lemurs, seems pretty similar.
        
       | skerit wrote:
       | I switched to Ly a few weeks ago, after SDDM kept crashing. And I
       | switched to SDDM because GDM did the same thing earlier. They
       | both were caught in some kind of crash-loop that it was
       | impossible for me to switch to another virtual console.
       | 
       | Now I have 0 issues.
        
       | Zambyte wrote:
       | About a year and a half ago now the developers decided to
       | completely rewrite Ly, porting it from C to Zig
       | 
       | https://codeberg.org/fairyglade/ly/commit/d8d2d5a8bfa8907451...
        
       | klaussilveira wrote:
       | I'm using this just because of the Doom animation. It's just too
       | (zero)cool to start the day as if it was a scene from the Hackers
       | movie.
        
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