Anyone else just not use any DM? The user/password prompt is sufficient for me and then my shell calls startx when initialized from the tty. It was mostly due to laziness that I did not feel like experimenting with any when I first migrated to Linux but then I just never felt the need to install one. My PC boots, asks me for user/password, then boots the X session and Cinnamon DE.
Yup, but I still have graphics start on a tty ;) I just don't have a login because I use an ephemeral OS (custom alpine base) with runit. It's like windows 95 all over again, you start the computer and that's it, use it. Highly recommended, no passwords just yubikeys
I switched to Ly a few weeks ago, after SDDM kept crashing. And I switched to SDDM because GDM did the same thing earlier. They both were caught in some kind of crash-loop that it was impossible for me to switch to another virtual console.
How did you get this to work? (See the config and did this before but never got ly to work on nixos, i migth have just been to early i guess)
Ive been using LY on arch for a while, and it is great looking, when it works, but it has lots of issues.
Mostly related to multi monitor, kernel warnings filling up the screen, and for all being just sligthly broken. But then again probably user error.
https://codeberg.org/fairyglade/ly/commit/d8d2d5a8bfa8907451...
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