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Kenny Levinsen
Personal blog · kl.wtfprogrammingsystems
Kenny Levinsen's personal blog at kl.wtf covers programming and systems. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Login Managers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link kl.wtf posts about Linux login and display managers, such as an introduction to how login managers work. The only comment points to that introduction while explaining PAM and xinitrc.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Kenny Levinsen's website
Most-linked posts?
- Login Managers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-22
What Hacker News says?
Most of that (e.g., keyring) is PAM, not the manager itself. The xinitrc thing is for all intents and purposes just a command run before your session binary, and sometimes a few extra env vars. Arguably a bad design (just let that be up to the session binary), it oh well. History is what it is. https://kl.wtf/posts/2022/03/12/login-managers-an-introducti...
Comment linking /posts/2022/03/12/login-managers-an-introduction.html
on “Ly: Display Manager with Console UI”Submitted Login Managers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Login Managers: An Introduction (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Disable Git from Xcode and Command Line Tools as a story · 1 points
HN discussion