Ly – A TUI Display Manager

Re:Ly – A TUI Display Manager by 1MachineElf on Saturday May 21, 2022 @02:48PM (#31460664)

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.

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Re:Ly – A TUI Display Manager by doubled112 on Saturday May 21, 2022 @03:17PM (#31460890)

Are you the only user? Do you always use i3?

If yes to both, you could have your bashrc (or you shell's equivalent) start X and i3 on a TTY login?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit#Autostart_X_at_login

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Re:Ly – A TUI Display Manager by LargoLasskhyfv on Saturday May 21, 2022 @04:49PM (#31461649)

An even more lazy approach is logging into the console,

regardless if textmode or framebuffer,

and simply do upward arrow & enter,

since whatever starts your session is the last entry in shell history anyways :-)

This way there is less surprise/annoyance with flickering/crashing X,

like you could have when starting X unconditionally after login,

which could happen after you modified something to test.

On another console, to not spoil the history for that upward arrow & enter thing ;-)

Which works regardless of shell/WM/DE/OS/whatever, at least it does so for me.

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Re:Ly – A TUI Display Manager by 1MachineElf on Saturday May 21, 2022 @09:24PM (#31464000)

Is this an approach that works well with screen locking, or is a display manager really necessary for that feature?

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Re:Ly – A TUI Display Manager by ankurdhama on Sunday May 22, 2022 @03:15AM (#31465701)

You don't need display manager to lock screen in i3. Just run or bind a key to run i3lock (or other lockers like slock)

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