DesktopLauncher

DesktopLauncher is a simple command line display manager which lets the user select and start a Wayland or X11 session after logging in.

Features

• Lists all available Wayland and X11 sessions
• Saves the previous selection for easy access
• Simple and fast

Building

1. Install Rust. This can be done through rustup or your system's package manager. It should be available on almost if not all popular Linux distributions.

2. Clone the repository and change into the directory it cloned to.

git clone https://github.com/kitzsh/DesktopLauncher
cd DesktopLauncher

3. Install dependencies and build the package.

cargo build --release

Installing

1. Change into the directory which contains the desktoplauncher binary. If built from source, this would be target/release/.

cd target/release/

2. Copy the binary to /usr/local/bin, or any directory in $PATH.

sudo cp desktoplauncher /usr/local/bin/desktoplauncher

3. At the end of your default shell's rc file (e.g ~/.bashrc for bash, ~/.zshrc for zsh), make desktoplauncher run if the current TTY is /dev/tty1, or whichever TTY you want it to run on.

if [[ "$(tty)" == "/dev/tty1" ]]; then
    desktoplauncher
fi

4. Disable existing display managers, if present.

Notes

This is my first Rust project. If you have any criticisms or improvements, feel free to make an issue or pull request.

I already have some ideas for this which I could implement in the future, such as:

• TUI and GUI front-ends with custom login screens.
• Systemd integration.

License

MIT