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Port details
ly TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for X and Wayland
1.4.1 x11 on this many watch lists=1 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 1.3.2_1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: kenrap@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2019-11-15 15:04:11
Last Update: 2026-05-16 17:31:45
Commit Hash: 989d718
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License: WTFPL
WWW:
https://codeberg.org/fairyglade/ly
Description:
Ly is a lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD. It supports both X11 and Wayland sessions.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb

Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/ly-1.4.1/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/ly-1.4.1/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/ly-1.4.1/WTFPL
  4. bin/ly
  5. bin/ly_wrapper
  6. @sample etc/ly/config.ini.sample
  7. @sample etc/ly/setup.sh.sample
  8. etc/ly/custom-sessions/README
  9. etc/ly/lang/ar.ini
  10. etc/ly/lang/bg.ini
  11. etc/ly/lang/cat.ini
  12. etc/ly/lang/cs.ini
  13. etc/ly/lang/de.ini
  14. etc/ly/lang/en.ini
  15. etc/ly/lang/eo.ini
  16. etc/ly/lang/es.ini
  17. etc/ly/lang/fr.ini
  18. etc/ly/lang/it.ini
  19. etc/ly/lang/ja_JP.ini
  20. etc/ly/lang/ku.ini
  21. etc/ly/lang/lv.ini
  22. etc/ly/lang/pl.ini
  23. etc/ly/lang/pt.ini
  24. etc/ly/lang/pt_BR.ini
  25. etc/ly/lang/ro.ini
  26. etc/ly/lang/ru.ini
  27. etc/ly/lang/sr.ini
  28. etc/ly/lang/sv.ini
  29. etc/ly/lang/tr.ini
  30. etc/ly/lang/uk.ini
  31. etc/ly/lang/zh_CN.ini
  32. etc/pam.d/ly
  33. etc/pam.d/ly-autologin
  34. @owner
  35. @group
  36. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • ly>0:x11/ly
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/x11/ly/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install x11/ly
  • pkg install ly
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: ly
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1778929550 SHA256 (zig/5f5a050569a95ecc40a426f0c3666ae7e.tar.gz) = e20b49a13049e8ef5aa1d798a70d8fc02b691fe44c7c78928aae3d363a1deb7e SIZE (zig/5f5a050569a95ecc40a426f0c3666ae7e.tar.gz) = 944918

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SHA256 (zig/fc1e5cc3f6d9d3001112385ee6256d694.tar.gz) = 5398506d403993341083ce5aac4d21bf53f6d0ce54367b6cb2cbc6f6c9b8e1e1 SIZE (zig/fc1e5cc3f6d9d3001112385ee6256d694.tar.gz) = 25962 SHA256 (zig/3b733e10adc6c4c48050709b97a22258b.tar.gz) = 0e23356bd8aa8df98bf504b473c7e88e9389271488a99254f217ea2f31948ba1 SIZE (zig/3b733e10adc6c4c48050709b97a22258b.tar.gz) = 7985 SHA256 (zig/c7f241e8888ce243e1748b05c26a42fcf.tar.gz) = 3de06cf58cbb72978919878b7b5d51e6249efaad0c3e89062cc5fc4ec76f3d3b SIZE (zig/c7f241e8888ce243e1748b05c26a42fcf.tar.gz) = 85793 SHA256 (zig/7a1a9fdc4ab00835748a6657ecbb835e3.tar.gz) = efdc1eec025d34c94ef80cfc73936f9a27a3c9b9d54ddf3dc57800305e17212b SIZE (zig/7a1a9fdc4ab00835748a6657ecbb835e3.tar.gz) = 146535 SHA256 (zig/a665d081dda42664a96da2840ea09c5cc.tar.gz) = e87e071bc9b9841b311727424fc163c2baa7048f4df10006099a6bccc7b7c092 SIZE (zig/a665d081dda42664a96da2840ea09c5cc.tar.gz) = 7336 SHA256 (zig/ly-ly-v1.4.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 16fe5f07cc7a23930880b14d905883644cdc4b574d1c146629f6b98ee8fbbab9 SIZE (zig/ly-ly-v1.4.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 147223

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
ly
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest1.3.21.3.20.4.00.6.0-n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly1.3.21.3.20.5.30.6.0-n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest1.4.11.4.10.5.2_20.6.0-0.5.3-0.5.3
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.3.2_11.3.2_1-0.6.0-0.6.00.6.00.6.0
FreeBSD:15:latest1.4.11.4.1n/a0.6.0n/an/a0.6.00.6.0
FreeBSD:15:quarterly1.3.2_11.3.2_1n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest-1.4.1n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. zig : lang/zig
  2. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  3. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
Runtime dependencies:
  1. xcb.pc : x11/libxcb
There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
x11_ly
USES:
zig pkgconfig xorg
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeberg.org/fairyglade/ly/archive/v1.4.1.tar.gz?dummy=/
  2. https://codeload.github.com/ly/ly/tar.gz/v1.4.1?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 25

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
1.4.1
16 May 2026 17:31:45
commit hash: 989d71873b8b9f85bbd1152eeec6e4121e0862adcommit hash: 989d71873b8b9f85bbd1152eeec6e4121e0862adcommit hash: 989d71873b8b9f85bbd1152eeec6e4121e0862adcommit hash: 989d71873b8b9f85bbd1152eeec6e4121e0862ad files touched by this commit		 Kenneth Raplee (kenrap) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/ly: Update to 1.4.1

Approved by:	arrowd (co-mentor)
1.4.0_1
12 May 2026 17:46:37
commit hash: 94c0b178ffb220933eb846a4714425cafbff0096commit hash: 94c0b178ffb220933eb846a4714425cafbff0096commit hash: 94c0b178ffb220933eb846a4714425cafbff0096commit hash: 94c0b178ffb220933eb846a4714425cafbff0096 files touched by this commit		 Lars Engels (lme) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/ly: Fix brightness_up_cmd, bump PORTREVISION
1.4.0
11 May 2026 15:33:49
commit hash: cd4f167a18d97e3b3afada61ef579d9a7ef3781fcommit hash: cd4f167a18d97e3b3afada61ef579d9a7ef3781fcommit hash: cd4f167a18d97e3b3afada61ef579d9a7ef3781fcommit hash: cd4f167a18d97e3b3afada61ef579d9a7ef3781f files touched by this commit		 Kenneth Raplee (kenrap) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/ly: Update to 1.4.0

PR:             294741
Approved by:    arrowd (co-mentor)
1.3.2
05 Apr 2026 19:45:01
commit hash: d5d3d3327037bc9095f5c2b55e54bf25c6dc4e88commit hash: d5d3d3327037bc9095f5c2b55e54bf25c6dc4e88commit hash: d5d3d3327037bc9095f5c2b55e54bf25c6dc4e88commit hash: d5d3d3327037bc9095f5c2b55e54bf25c6dc4e88 files touched by this commit		 Kenneth Raplee (kenrap) search for other commits by this committer 
*/*: Take maintainership

Approved by:    bapt (former maintainer)
Approved by:    makc (mentor)
1.3.2
08 Mar 2026 08:13:00
commit hash: b7bb9edee49b0ae8fc1202e4baed638b32087093commit hash: b7bb9edee49b0ae8fc1202e4baed638b32087093commit hash: b7bb9edee49b0ae8fc1202e4baed638b32087093commit hash: b7bb9edee49b0ae8fc1202e4baed638b32087093 files touched by this commit		 Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Kenneth Raplee		 
x11/ly: Restore install directions in pkg-message.in
1.3.2
05 Mar 2026 16:40:35
commit hash: 05afdb142ba9d66ec83853ea26d686655a971874commit hash: 05afdb142ba9d66ec83853ea26d686655a971874commit hash: 05afdb142ba9d66ec83853ea26d686655a971874commit hash: 05afdb142ba9d66ec83853ea26d686655a971874 files touched by this commit		 Siva Mahadevan (siva) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/ly: update to 1.3.2

Needed to fix Ly when running in a VM, logging into KDE x11.

While here, move dependencies to Makefile.zig as Uses/zig.mk
recommends.

Reviewed by:	bapt
Approved by:	lwhsu (mentor, implicitly)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55647
1.3.1
07 Jan 2026 07:49:25
commit hash: 1ada728a73c53f63364d20e4b0fc53741ae65b24commit hash: 1ada728a73c53f63364d20e4b0fc53741ae65b24commit hash: 1ada728a73c53f63364d20e4b0fc53741ae65b24commit hash: 1ada728a73c53f63364d20e4b0fc53741ae65b24 files touched by this commit		 Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/ly: update to 1.3.1

Add a pkg-message file which explains what to do when upgrading from
0.6 [1]
Fix WWW [1]

Reported by:	Michael Reim <michael.reim@web.de> [1]
1.3.0_1
02 Jan 2026 07:45:38
commit hash: d4d7e3dcecb1ec6fa05a4cdcc20eb59939a10f20commit hash: d4d7e3dcecb1ec6fa05a4cdcc20eb59939a10f20commit hash: d4d7e3dcecb1ec6fa05a4cdcc20eb59939a10f20commit hash: d4d7e3dcecb1ec6fa05a4cdcc20eb59939a10f20 files touched by this commit		 Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/ly: fix setup.sh script permissions
1.3.0
31 Dec 2025 13:46:28
commit hash: 03f3d9287cfddd50ef76097be2a2e0c95615f3f3commit hash: 03f3d9287cfddd50ef76097be2a2e0c95615f3f3commit hash: 03f3d9287cfddd50ef76097be2a2e0c95615f3f3commit hash: 03f3d9287cfddd50ef76097be2a2e0c95615f3f3 files touched by this commit		 Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/ly: update to 1.3.0
0.6.0
17 Jun 2024 09:26:54
commit hash: f6c04193d0f8d2fe1610a74662d575ef526c16c4commit hash: f6c04193d0f8d2fe1610a74662d575ef526c16c4commit hash: f6c04193d0f8d2fe1610a74662d575ef526c16c4commit hash: f6c04193d0f8d2fe1610a74662d575ef526c16c4 files touched by this commit		 Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Robin Haberkorn		 
x11/ly: fixed application of login class via setusercontext()

See also https://github.com/fairyglade/ly/issues/572
0.6.0
04 Aug 2023 12:24:38
commit hash: a8d80b64596d24bf1c339034bdc8d2ab5dd01ebacommit hash: a8d80b64596d24bf1c339034bdc8d2ab5dd01ebacommit hash: a8d80b64596d24bf1c339034bdc8d2ab5dd01ebacommit hash: a8d80b64596d24bf1c339034bdc8d2ab5dd01eba files touched by this commit		 Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/ly: fix forgotten makefile update

When upgrading to 0.6.0 I have updated the makefile patch but
actually forgot to push it.
0.6.0
31 Jul 2023 13:56:58
commit hash: 09e2ae19539832d11864b527b0519d5d2c22a20dcommit hash: 09e2ae19539832d11864b527b0519d5d2c22a20dcommit hash: 09e2ae19539832d11864b527b0519d5d2c22a20dcommit hash: 09e2ae19539832d11864b527b0519d5d2c22a20d files touched by this commit		 Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/ly: update to 0.6.0

This update also incorporate some patches from upstream to fix an
issue with cusom X command
While here:
- remove dependency on gnu coreutils
- remove patches or part of patches which has been upstream

PR:	272368
Initial patch send by: 	embhd@posteo.de
0.5.3
07 Apr 2023 11:11:17
commit hash: 2678790b4436d96d25d2d389c5ac41f515f9175ccommit hash: 2678790b4436d96d25d2d389c5ac41f515f9175ccommit hash: 2678790b4436d96d25d2d389c5ac41f515f9175ccommit hash: 2678790b4436d96d25d2d389c5ac41f515f9175c files touched by this commit		 Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/ly: update to 0.5.3, take maintainership
0.5.2_2
09 Oct 2022 20:36:39
commit hash: 9dd4f006b03b21ac64d07f602707effd1f27adb8commit hash: 9dd4f006b03b21ac64d07f602707effd1f27adb8commit hash: 9dd4f006b03b21ac64d07f602707effd1f27adb8commit hash: 9dd4f006b03b21ac64d07f602707effd1f27adb8 files touched by this commit		 Neel Chauhan (nc) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/ly: release port
07 Sep 2022 21:58:51
commit hash: fb16dfecae4a6efac9f3a78e0b759fb7a3c53de4commit hash: fb16dfecae4a6efac9f3a78e0b759fb7a3c53de4commit hash: fb16dfecae4a6efac9f3a78e0b759fb7a3c53de4commit hash: fb16dfecae4a6efac9f3a78e0b759fb7a3c53de4 files touched by this commit		 Stefan Eßer (se) search for other commits by this committer 
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles

Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.

This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)
0.5.2_2
07 Sep 2022 21:10:59
commit hash: b7f05445c00f2625aa19b4154ebcbce5ed2daa52commit hash: b7f05445c00f2625aa19b4154ebcbce5ed2daa52commit hash: b7f05445c00f2625aa19b4154ebcbce5ed2daa52commit hash: b7f05445c00f2625aa19b4154ebcbce5ed2daa52 files touched by this commit		 Stefan Eßer (se) search for other commits by this committer 
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles

It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.

Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.

There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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0.5.2_2
04 Feb 2022 15:17:15
commit hash: 428498db4b1eab71c787485b9cc249ac7ddd7542commit hash: 428498db4b1eab71c787485b9cc249ac7ddd7542commit hash: 428498db4b1eab71c787485b9cc249ac7ddd7542commit hash: 428498db4b1eab71c787485b9cc249ac7ddd7542 files touched by this commit		 Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/ly: FreeBSD users deserves nice bars in console

Ly by default when not running on linux uses ugly ascii art instead of
nice drawing on the console, now FreeBSD also have the nice drawing
0.5.2_1
17 Oct 2021 04:30:18
commit hash: b358f7e7d4770ca42ea9478c831eb4d4e67b5700commit hash: b358f7e7d4770ca42ea9478c831eb4d4e67b5700commit hash: b358f7e7d4770ca42ea9478c831eb4d4e67b5700commit hash: b358f7e7d4770ca42ea9478c831eb4d4e67b5700 files touched by this commit		 Neel Chauhan (nc) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Tom R		 
x11/ly: Fix coredumps on STABLE

Obtained via: private email
0.5.2
09 Apr 2021 17:52:49
commit hash: d34cc2323087de32a1eccb989ea68fdae6f44480commit hash: d34cc2323087de32a1eccb989ea68fdae6f44480commit hash: d34cc2323087de32a1eccb989ea68fdae6f44480commit hash: d34cc2323087de32a1eccb989ea68fdae6f44480 files touched by this commit		 Neel Chauhan (nc) search for other commits by this committer 
x11/ly: Update to 0.5.2

Changes:

 * https://github.com/nullgemm/ly/releases/tag/v0.5.2
 * https://github.com/nullgemm/ly/releases/tag/v0.5.1
0.5.0
07 Apr 2021 08:09:01
commit hash: cf118ccf875508b9a1c570044c93cfcc82bd455ccommit hash: cf118ccf875508b9a1c570044c93cfcc82bd455ccommit hash: cf118ccf875508b9a1c570044c93cfcc82bd455ccommit hash: cf118ccf875508b9a1c570044c93cfcc82bd455c files touched by this commit		 Mathieu Arnold (mat) search for other commits by this committer 
One more small cleanup, forgotten yesterday.
Reported by:	lwhsu
0.5.0
06 Apr 2021 14:31:13
commit hash: 135fdeebb99c3569e42d8162b265e15d29bd937dcommit hash: 135fdeebb99c3569e42d8162b265e15d29bd937dcommit hash: 135fdeebb99c3569e42d8162b265e15d29bd937dcommit hash: 135fdeebb99c3569e42d8162b265e15d29bd937d files touched by this commit		 Mathieu Arnold (mat) search for other commits by this committer 
all: Remove all other $FreeBSD keywords.
0.5.0
06 Apr 2021 14:31:07
commit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344eb files touched by this commit		 Mathieu Arnold (mat) search for other commits by this committer 
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.
0.5.0
05 Feb 2021 16:18:46
Revision:564128Original commit files touched by this commit		 nc search for other commits by this committer 
x11/ly: Update to 0.5.0 and adopt port

Changes: https://github.com/nullgemm/ly/releases/tag/v0.5.0

Reviewed by:		0mp
Approved by:		0mp (mentor)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28457
0.4.0
28 Apr 2020 18:11:23
Revision:533261Original commit files touched by this commit		 0mp search for other commits by this committer 
x11/ly: Return to the pool
0.4.0
15 Nov 2019 15:04:02
Revision:517680Original commit files touched by this commit		 0mp search for other commits by this committer 
New port: x11/ly: TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for X and Wayland

Ly is a lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD.

It supports both X11 and Wayland sessions.

WWW: https://github.com/cylgom/ly

Reviewed by:	mat
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22228

Number of commits found: 25
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