BSD Ports

x11/ly 0.6.0 DragonFly

TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for X and Wayland

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
WTFPL
Categories
x11
Package size
36.5 KiB, 103.9 KiB installed

Description

Ly is a lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD.

It supports both X11 and Wayland sessions.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlyx11/ly0.6.0
FreeBSDx11/ly1.4.1

Install

Binary package:

pkg install ly

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11/ly && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

Add the following entry to /etc/gettytab:

Ly:\
	:lo=/usr/local/bin/ly:\
	:al=root:

Modify the command field of the ttyv1 terminal entry in /etc/ttys

ttyv1   "/usr/libexec/getty Ly"         xterm   on secure

Make sure that "tty" is set appropriately in the /usr/local/etc/ly/config.ini file if
you decide to configure a different TTY for Ly instead.