I would be a lot more interested in Ly if could start up in Wayland mode and have no dependencies on X.
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Originally posted by reba View Post
Sooo... just log in to TTY and enter "sway" on the console?
Because that's what I do but with Plasma / labwc and that's why I am still wondering for what a display manager is for it it's just a graphical launcher with extra dependencies
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I tried to use the arch installer a few months ago but it was just buggy as hell. If you need just a basic desktop install with standard settings it is really great and fast but once you start selecting uncommon options or dare to make your own partition layout it will just crash on install.
But who uses arch for a standard desktop? If you want that there are a million distros that do it much better and easier. With Arch you want to make custom stuff and the installer is useless there.
BTW is there any official documentation on how to setup custom partition layout so that the archinstaller recognizes it? I couldn't find any docs for it. The arch forum is useless, they just put you in a separate sub and ignore you.
The idea of an automated installerscript is cool but for now it's the old research, type, research, type, ... and you still forget some small detail.
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Originally posted by archkde View Post
Great idea. You just broke any kind of remote login completely. And when sway breaks or is uninstalled, local login is now broken as well.
Code:if [ -z "${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}" ] && [ "${XDG_VTNR}" -eq 1 ]; then exec sway fi
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A display manager does more than just a login. Lockscreen, session management, user management, language selection, autostart, touchscreen compat, ... and making everything configurable per GUI.
Sure you can do most of it somehow manually in the terminal but my next question is, why do you even need a desktop environment? You can basically start an xserver with one application from the console.
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Originally posted by Anux View PostA display manager does more than just a login. Lockscreen, session management, user management, language selection, autostart, touchscreen compat, ... and making everything configurable per GUI.
Sure you can do most of it somehow manually in the terminal but my next question is, why do you even need a desktop environment? You can basically start an xserver with one application from the console.
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I love Ly's visuals, but it's possibly too dumb as a greeter/display manager to be useful to me. The problem is that Ly is running on TTY and if you have a complex multimonitor/gpu setup it will probably never display on the monitor you want it to & also there is the issue that it did not even start KDE for me the last time I tried.
Then again since I switched to an AMD gpu recently, perhaps I should try again! TTY is working better now at least..
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Ly doesnt seem very well supported? A lot of people have this issue where logs flow onto the Ly login screen:
logs flows into login screen (bug/feature request) · Issue #537 · fairyglade/ly · GitHub
also agree they should make a pure Wayland mode
Originally posted by Joe2021 View Post
Having an "exec sway" statement in your .profile doesn't sound to arcane to me.
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