seatd(1)

NAME

seatd - A seat management daemon

SYNOPSIS

seatd [options]

OPTIONS

-h
    Show help message and quit.

-u <user>
    User to own the seatd socket.

-g <group>
    Group to own the seatd socket.

-s <path>
    Where to create the seatd socket. Defaults to `/run/seatd.sock`.

-v
    Show the version number and quit.

DESCRIPTION

seatd provides central seat management, mediating access to shared resources such as displays and input devices in a multi-session, multi-seat environment.

seatd operates over a UNIX domain socket, with libseat providing the client-side of the protocol.

ENVIRONMENT

VARIABLE | VALUES | DESCRIPTION
SEATD_SOCK | File path | Informs libseat of the socket location, needed if it differs from `/run/seatd.sock`
SEATD_LOGLEVEL | silent, error, info, debug | Sets the seatd log level. Defaults to "error"

SEE ALSO

The libseat library, <libseat.h>

AUTHORS

Maintained by Kenny Levinsen <contact@kl.wtf>, who is assisted by other open-source contributors. For more information about seatd development, see https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd.