Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD

Re:Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for... by diath on Monday December 01, 2025 @06:08AM (#46106011)

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.

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Re:Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for... by hecanjog on Monday December 01, 2025 @07:24AM (#46106574)

Never bothered to set one up either! I type `startx` and get dumped into dwm. (Udiskie is a nice addition for automounting drives too.)

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Re:Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for... by ratrocket on Monday December 01, 2025 @08:49AM (#46107352)

I also type "startx". Never saw the point of a display manager (which might be my own shortcoming!).

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Re:Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for... by DyslexicAtheist on Monday December 01, 2025 @07:41AM (#46106743)

yepp, running sway as non-root

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Re:Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for... by dmwilcox on Monday December 01, 2025 @08:39AM (#46107252)

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

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Re:Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for... by a96 on Monday December 01, 2025 @11:48AM (#46109632)

Switch console, ^z and you got a login shell. Handy for anyone who happends to find your device.

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