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Display Manager - Ly

Use ly as Display Manager

systemctl enable --now ly@tty5.service

systemctl disable getty@tty5.service

systemctl disable gdm.service

Customization

System-wide ly configuration files can be found in /etc/ly/config.ini.

Changes to make:

• use custom animation
  • copy blackhole-smooth-240x67.dur from this directory into /etc/ly/
  • set animation = dur_file
  • set dur_file_path = /etc/ly/blackhole-smooth-240x67.dur
• use vim mode
  • set vi_mode = true
  • set vi_default_mode = insert
  • (obviously Ly won’t accept capslock as escape to switch to normal mode, which is a little annoying)
• (optional) show battery status
  • find out battery_id
    • ls /sys/class/power_supply/
  • set battery_id to battery_id