Ly is a free, minimalistic and lightweight open source terminal-based display manager for Linux.
Ly is a great alternative for those who are used to staring at the terminal window all day long. Ly is a lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD.
First of all, it is recommended to update and upgrade the packages before any installation:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Installing dependencies required for Ly
To install ly you will need to install some very important dependencies . For simplicity, run the following command:
apt-get install build-essential libpam0g-dev libxcb-xkb-dev git -y
Install Ly
The next step is to install ly display manager. Start by opening a terminal window and clone the repository as shown below (use this Git guide link):
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/nullgemm/ly.git
Once completed, navigate to the directory
cd ly
Run the compile command as shown below (just paste the command):
make
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After compilation is complete, run the following command to test the display manager in the current tty session.
sudo make run
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Once you’ve successfully tested, the next step is to install Ly and its systemd services. The command looks like this:
make install
After a successful installation, you should run the command below to enable the systemd service
systemctl enable ly
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