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authorFederico Angelilli <code@fedang.net>2025-01-08 20:28:02 +0100
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title = 'Setting up Ly on Gentoo'
date = 2025-01-08T01:00:52+01:00
-summary = "My experience with installing the `ly` display manager."
categories = [ "linux", "guide" ]
tags = [ "linux", "gentoo", "display-manager", "ly", "tty" ]
+#summary = "My experience with installing the `ly` display manager."
+summary = """After my TTY login run into trouble, I decided to try the `ly` display manager. \
+I described what I did in order to install and enable it on my Gentoo system."""
+++
> Ly is a lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD.
@@ -11,7 +13,7 @@ tags = [ "linux", "gentoo", "display-manager", "ly", "tty" ]
## Premise
A few months ago, my Gentoo install came to be in a rather annoying predicament.
-After booting from GRUB, I was greeted by a black screen instead of the usual login TTY.
+After booting from GRUB, I was greeted by a black screen instead of the usual TTY.
I inserted my credentials nonetheless, and to my relief, I could successfully launch X.
I was confident that the culprit was a kernel option for the video driver.