Lemurs 🐒

A TUI Display/Login Manager written in Rust

WIP: Whilst the project is working and installable, there are still a lot of bugs and limitations.

A minimal lightweight TUI Display Manager/Login Manager written in Rust similar to Ly.

Goal

The goal of this project is to create a small, robust and yet customizable Login Manager which can serve as the front-end to your graphical GNU/Linux or BSD environment. Lemurs uses Linux PAM as its method of authentication.

Installation

The install.sh script can be used to compile and setup the display manager on your Unix machine. This will perform multiple steps:

Build the project in release mode (requires Rust's cargo)
Setup the /etc/lemurs folder which contains some of the configuration and necessary files such as your selection of window managers.
Disables the previous Display Manager
Copy over the systemd service and enables it.

Although you might first want to set up some window managers (see Usage), upon rebooting you should now see Lemurs.

Usage

After running the installation script you can add your window managers by creating runnable scripts also known as xinitrcs under the /etc/lemurs/wms folders. The name of the script is used as the name within lemurs. For example, for the bspwm window manager, you might add the script /etc/lemurs/wms/bspwm.

#! /bin/sh

sxhkd &
exec bspwm

Remember to make this script runnable. This is done with the chmod +x /etc/lemurs/wms/bspwm command.

Upon rebooting your new xinitrc should show up within Lemurs.

configuration

Many parts for the UI can be configured with the /etc/lemurs/config.toml file. This file contains all the options and explainations of their purpose. The flag --config <CONFIG FIlE> can be used to select another configuration file instead. An example configuration can be found in the /extra folder.

License

The project is made available under the MIT and APACHE license. See the LICENSE-MIT and LICENSE-APACHE files, respectively, for more information.

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