@monwarez Actually it was easy to fix and no evil intention by the developers of Ly. It seemed to be a backlight issue on my system. So in this case I was wrong, but this doesn't change the fact that development becomes more and more Linux-centric.

@tfb Unfortunately this is something that we see more and more often. Not in this case, but when it comes to desktop environments. When it becomes impossible to run a certain desktop environment on *BSD because it requires systemd, this DE is useless on BSD.

@david_chisnall I agree. In this case, it doesn't bother me too much, but I have got the feeling that it only shows a general trend, where everything is more and more tailored towards Linux and the BSDs are ignored. We see this particularly with certain desktop environments.

In this case, it's easy to handle, but from a simple and lightweight display manager like Ly, I would expect that it just works and uses no OS-specific functionalities.

Great, with Version 1.3.0, Ly display manager introduced a brightness feature, where you can increase or decrease brightness. I never felt the urge to change the brightness of my black login screen with green text, but now it's there.... Pressed F5, nothing happened but a message appeared "failed to change brightness".

It seems that Ly tries to use brightnessctl to adjust display brightness, which is not available on FreeBSD.

I really liked Ly because it's a simple and easy to use display manager with a minimalistic approach, but I have the feeling that more and more open source software is being developed with a focus on Linux, leaving other systems out in the cold.

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