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•2mo ago
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•2mo ago
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•2mo ago
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•2mo ago
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•2mo ago
I also type "startx". Never saw the point of a display manager (which might be my own shortcoming!).
DyslexicAtheist•2mo ago
yepp, running sway as non-root
dmwilcox•2mo ago
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•2mo ago
Switch console, ^z and you got a login shell. Handy for anyone who happends to find your device.
coolcoder613•2mo ago
I use lemurs, seems pretty similar.
skerit•2mo ago
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•2mo ago
About a year and a half ago now the developers decided to completely rewrite Ly, porting it from C to Zig
zetalyrae•2mo ago
[0] https://github.com/eudoxia0/dotfiles/blob/a812dd5b5e62e53b30...
gunalx•2mo ago
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•2mo ago