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Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD

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The Ly display manager

Ly is a lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD, designed with portability in mind (e.g. it does not require systemd to run).

Join us on Matrix over at #ly:envs.net!

Note: Development happens on Codeberg with a mirror on GitHub.

Dependencies

Compile-time: zig 0.15.x libc pam xcb (optional, required by default; needed for X11 support)

Runtime (with default config): xorg xorg-xauth shutdown brightnessctl

Debian

# apt install build-essential libpam0g-dev libxcb-xkb-dev xauth xserver-xorg brightnessctl

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