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diff --git a/content/posts/setting-up-ly.md b/content/posts/setting-up-ly.md index 134f075..9b0849a 100644 --- a/content/posts/setting-up-ly.md +++ b/content/posts/setting-up-ly.md @@ -1,9 +1,11 @@ +++ 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. |