My FAVORITE Minimal Login Manager for Linux!

Looking for a simple display manager to use as a login screen? For me, I want a login manager that isn't too complicated but looks and functions a little nicer than just typing startx into your tty. In this video, I'll show you my favorite login manager, ly, and how to install and configure it.
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0:00 Intro
1:48 Installation
3:08 Setting up xinitrc
4:02 Configuration
6:29 Changing the colorscheme
9:08 Conclusion

[@tonyramirez5707]

It honestly astonishes me that you aren't one of the big GNU/Linux channels because you pull some quality content so consistently. As an Arch enthusiast (barely a couple of months using it), I can only wish you the best.

[@Tala2n]

An advantage of display manager is the typing saving. The last user and desktop environement names are selected for you.

[@diogomarquessimoes]

3:05 you can use the --force option to replace your old login manager with the new one

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Good tip, thanks!

[@zeustiger2004]

i'm from in VietNam, Thanks you so much for information, god blessed you. i hope you don't give up.

[@eriklundstedt9469]

I've been using this for about a year at this point and I absolutely love it

[@9e0r63]

Excellent! It is perfect for those users who have few resources on their PC or Laptop. 👍👌

[@DVHThrudgelmir]

LOVE your channel! Very useful stuff, to the point and free of bs. A shame you haven't got more subs!

[@maclin248]

Thanks for our video on LY Login manager. Would be even nicer if You would avoid the microphone table resonance sound by hanging or whatever.

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Yeah, sorry about that. It should be better in recent videos.

[@SansDev]

I've been using it a long time ago but I didn't know about the customization. Tysm :)

[@capfarps]

Thanks so much, i was having a problem with lightdm, tried to remove it with deactivating and brick startx, installed ly an now have a more minimalist Linux experience

[@kqvanity]

0:07 I guess this very login screen is even called greeter :)

[@davidprock904]

What if your using Gentoo with openrc

[@aidenlee2146]

How can i exit existing session when using ly?

[@kilian935]

what terminal font is that? and how do you get grey suggestions in terminal? Cool video!

[@EricMurphyxyz]

I think in this video it's JetBrains Mono and the suggestions is the plugin zsh-autosuggestions. More info here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXnRfpduqt9poJI

[@realMrVent]

It's such a shame that ly is buggy when it comes to systemd. Maybe we'll see some improvements on this over time.

[@elys7563]

Great video. One question: How do I change it's font?

[@woabaka]

Hola, tengo un problema para poder iniciar sesión sabes el porque? Muy buen video por cierto

[@abdounet8194]

What distro and what window manager you use ? Thanks

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Arch and bspwm

[@moister3727]

Really good video! Any idea how this can works outside systemd? Compile, tested and everything good. Just I don't know how to enable the service in runnit.

[@luisnarvaez3407]

How can I turn off that beep sound on Ly?

[@w3w3w3]

You still use this? This looks like something i would like to use, i wonder if it can cause issues in future though? idk

[@hectorcanizales5900]

Thanks for the vid and straight to the point ! I myself use DWM with LukeSmith's LARBS with a few customizations here and there.

[@psevd020]

Great video! How did you add the different window managers / graphical interfaces as options on ly display manager? I currently run i3 with lightdm and would like to make the switch to ly but for some reason my i3 interface does not pop up as an option.

[@alanwalker8834]

Hi installed the new archman with out dm but watching your clip i added this no problem but they have there own repo's so it was not a problem but trying direct from arch was no go anyway tks.

[@user-v2u-c2j]

[@sakshamray9981]

LightDM is my favourite

[@EricMurphyxyz]

LightDM is another good one, I may do a video on it in the future

[@manthonymontoya]

Hey the doom fire effects work for me when typing 'ly' into the terminal and when restarting the systemctl service for ly. But when I reboot the machine - the doom fire effects don't work. Any idea what's going on?

[@bmp7458]

which color scheme for your terminal is this?

[@mxsrxm]

Hello friend I have a question, when you start the system the ly interface is displayed and it makes a sound and it does it again after you start your session when you are entering your desktop environment. Do you know how to turn off that sound?

[@cendoldawetseger]

how to change default font in archlinux console ?

[@robertschumann6977]

Nice video! Could you maybe update your dotfiles, that would be great?

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Thanks! I think they're up to date, looking for anything in particular?

[@Proferk]

why not just ditch the display manager and use startx in your shell's profile (if in a tty detected) instead?

[@EricMurphyxyz]

I did that before, but this is a little bit nicer of a UI

[@ysssffff_]

Can u make eww widget guide setup?

[@user-he4ef9br7z]

No need to use a Login manager in the first place. Just log in from the tty.

[@EricMurphyxyz]

You can and I did for a while, but ly is a little nicer looking and involves a little less typing

[@vallabhtiwari]

Not working for my Ubuntu 22.04. Am I missing something after systemctl enable?

[@EricMurphyxyz]

You may have to disable your current login manager which by default I think is gdm for Ubuntu. Not sure though, as I've never tried on Ubuntu

[@chimak111]

@@EricMurphyxyz I just successfully installed ly on Xubuntu 22.04 following the instructions on ly's github page. To get it going I used `sudo systemctl enable ly.service --force`. Here, `--force` ensures that the existing DM is disabled.

[@SirLancelotS]

after sudo make install. do sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service then sudo systemctl enable ly.service and that's it. you can algo remove gdm

[@jigga1704]

This program is so buggy.. It doesn't return to ly on logout

[@EricMurphyxyz]

It works fine for me on bspwm with bspc quit, you might have something configured incorrectly

[@linuxeando]

work with sway(wayland)?

[@EricMurphyxyz]

It should work

[@linuxeando]

@@EricMurphyxyz Thank you very much, I have been trying with greetd and x11 but it only recognizes the session as tty, with sway(wayland) I have no problems but with xfce it only recognizes it as tty

[@diyfan2808]

my favorite login manager is login (the default login manager in GNU\Linux) + xinit\startx

[@EricMurphyxyz]

I mean that works too but this has a little more style