lemurs
Customizable TUI display and login manager
TLDR
Start the display manager
$ lemurs
SYNOPSIS
lemurs [options]
DESCRIPTION
lemurs is a terminal-based display and login manager for Linux and BSD systems. It uses PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) for authentication and can serve as the front-end for TTY, X11, or Wayland sessions. It works both with and without systemd.Session environments are configured by placing scripts in /etc/lemurs/wms for X11 xinitrc scripts and /etc/lemurs/wayland for Wayland compositor scripts.
CONFIGURATION
/etc/lemurs/config.toml
Main configuration file for customizing the login screen appearance and behavior./etc/lemurs/wms/
Directory for X11 session scripts./etc/lemurs/wayland/
Directory for Wayland session scripts.
INSTALL
sudo pacman -S lemurs
nix profile install nixpkgs#lemurs
CAVEATS
Requires PAM for authentication. Session scripts must be executable. Some desktop environments may require additional configuration to work with a TUI-based display manager.
HISTORY
lemurs was created by coastalwhite and is written in Rust. It is available in the Arch Linux extra repository.
