ly: ly breaks after logging out

I’m using awesomewm, I also tested this with BSPWM, and any time I exit the window managers, it doesn’t actually go back to ly, it just stays there with the windows open, but no real way to interact with anything.

If I go to a tty and sudo killall ly sudo systemctl start ly

it will be working again, but it doesn’t work otherwise after logging out.

This same issue doesn’t happen when using lightdm, but I like ly more.

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Same problem with Arch Linux using Openbox and fish shell

The problem only occurs when using fish as default shell and works fine with bash or zsh

thiago-rezende on Jun 9, 2021

Can reproduce on sway.

nununoisy on Nov 13, 2019

Hi, on xmonad after exiting, ly’s screen gets filled up with garbage about not being able to launch various programs. I can still login again but the display is nonsensical. This doesn’t happen when loging in to shell

GeorgeColeclough on Nov 7, 2019

Looks like the issue is still present on Arch Linux latest. Is there a way to disable this output somehow? In my case it happens with Plasma on Wayland. Yes, @shasherazi this is on wayland as well.

prirai on Jun 17, 2023

Can confirm with i3. After exiting the wm, ly becomes unresponsive.

tadly on Nov 6, 2019

Same problem here with Arch, LeftWM 0.2.11 and Ly v0.5.3.r5.g609b3f9. Logout command (loginctl terminate-session ${XDG_SESSION_ID-}) close the window manager, but instead of starting ly it shows a bunch of errors and it get stuck there.

Only fix is to jump to another tty and sudo systemctl restart ly

That happens with both fish and zsh

di-effe on Dec 23, 2021