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captaincr0x

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Registered: 2022-12-05

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Replacing LightDM with ly

Pretty straight forward. Following the creator guidelines (github.com/fairyglade/ly)
disabling lightdm service and enabling the ly one was pretty simple.

For Anyone Who Wants to try.

dolly

Miss Mixunderstand

From: /lab701

Registered: 2015-10-03

Posts: 490

Re: Replacing LightDM with ly

Hi captaincr0x, and wlcome to the BL forums.

Can you please give some examples of what it is that makes "ly" worth investigating? What are the advantages over LightDM, or disadvantages if there are any? A link maybe?

Last edited by dolly (2022-12-06 03:25:38)

captaincr0x

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Registered: 2022-12-05

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Re: Replacing LightDM with ly

First Thanks for the warm welcome, it's indeed my pleasure.

I first came across this solution when trying to build my own Ubuntu Flavour.
What made me make the change is actually the system crashing after drivers updates, supposedly Xorg was not
configured correctly so with the Display Manager change I also had to ran Xorg -configure to be able to boot
into a working graphical desktop.

Also I hope I did not cause any harm because I forgot to mention whilst replacing the Display Manager to ly, it did
came up as a blank Openbox, so I had to write a new autostart file with the following:

captaincr0x@bunsen:~$ cat /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart 
#
# These things are run when an Openbox X Session is started.
# You may place a similar script in $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart
# to run user-specific things.
#

# If you want to use GNOME config tools...
#
#if test -x /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnome-settings-daemon >/dev/null; then
#  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnome-settings-daemon &
#elif which gnome-settings-daemon >/dev/null 2>&1; then
#  gnome-settings-daemon &
#fi

# If you want to use XFCE config tools...
#
#xfce-mcs-manager &
tint2 &
nm-applet &
nitrogen --restore &
pnmixer &
captaincr0x@bunsen:~$ 

I may missed some of the original script but hey my Bunsen desktop looks awesome.
If you could direct me how to get the original autostart script working in a case like this, I and Whoever want to try
this switch without any further hassle would really appreciate it. Thanks.

If you ask me about my way of thinking regarding the switch I have made, well basically it comes to my approach of reducing
bandwidth consumption may be it via - disk space usage, ram, cpu you get it.
Apart from that, TUI is a pretty cool looking conecpt, especially for Usage like this.

Which bring me to a funny story, In Israel the Postal Bank still use these same kind of TUIs (Meaning DOS Terminal software).

el_koraco

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Registered: 2016-02-08

Posts: 307

Re: Replacing LightDM with ly

Which bring me to a funny story, In Israel the Postal Bank still use these same kind of TUIs (Meaning DOS Terminal software).

Same in Croatia.

PackRat

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Registered: 2015-10-02

Posts: 2,611

Re: Replacing LightDM with ly

Hi captaincr0x, and wlcome to the BL forums.

Can you please give some examples of what it is that makes "ly" worth investigating? What are the advantages over LightDM, or disadvantages if there are any? A link maybe?

ly is lighter on system resources and can be used with Wayland.

https://github.com/fairyglade/ly

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captaincr0x

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Registered: 2022-12-05

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Re: Replacing LightDM with ly

Ok, You got me, there may have been some spill concerning my way of thinking because I now want to get this one - a.aliexpress.com/_m0xzi3C

Which bring me to a funny story, In Israel the Postal Bank still use these same kind of TUIs (Meaning DOS Terminal software).

Same in Croatia.

You have Israel Postal Bank in Croatia too?

el_koraco

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Registered: 2016-02-08

Posts: 307

Re: Replacing LightDM with ly

haha I like it.

dolly

Miss Mixunderstand

From: /lab701

Registered: 2015-10-03

Posts: 490

Re: Replacing LightDM with ly

ly is lighter on system resources and can be used with Wayland.

https://github.com/fairyglade/ly

Thank you @PackRat, it looks very neat and tidy. An interesting replacement for LightDM.

captaincr0x

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Registered: 2022-12-05

Posts: 4

Re: Replacing LightDM with ly

Replace grub-menu with systemd-boot.

unklar

Back to the roots 1.9

From: #! BL

Registered: 2015-10-31

Posts: 2,640

Re: Replacing LightDM with ly

Replace grub-menu with systemd-boot.

and, if you now tell the common user how to do it without EFI, your offer is perfect. 

or1o9

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Registered: 2017-11-15

Posts: 246

Re: Replacing LightDM with ly

Read all about it here.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-boot

Or just enable the BL TTY login as default.

THX1138

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Registered: 2019-01-14

Posts: 286

Re: Replacing LightDM with ly

Sorry! really sorry, I know this is an old thread  but In all my years of using ly I never met anyone else who did, and just got a bit excited.

Hi captaincr0x, and wlcome to the BL forums.

Can you please give some examples of what it is that makes "ly" worth investigating? What are the advantages over LightDM, or disadvantages if there are any? A link maybe?

I never imagined I would find an ly thread here. I used it when I switched from Bunsen to void linux  for a while. What I liked is that it is simple to set up, It gives your login screen a very minimalist look (I love minimalism in software). Its very efficient, is text based, not graphics, and looks awesome.
https://github.com/fairyglade/ly

edit: oops i forgot to add the downside.
The downside for me was just that it occasionally stopped working for no apparent reason (just once or twice in a couple of years) but it caused me to reinstall lightdm and trust that more

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manyroads

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Re: Replacing LightDM with ly

I tried ly recently on Debian (LiliDog) and ran into serious breakage. Like you I really like the look of ly.  BUT... slick-greeter with LightDM is really stable and works all the time, every time. FWIW I had the same experience on arch distros....

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THX1138

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Registered: 2019-01-14

Posts: 286

Re: Replacing LightDM with ly

Read all about it here.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-boot

Or just enable the BL TTY login as default.

oh wait - mind blown ----
....Or just enable the BL TTY login as default...
ok I never even knew that existed - will try it

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