sddm-greeter(1)

sddm display manager greeter

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Description

SDDM-GREETER

NAME

sddm-greeter - sddm display manager greeter

SYNOPSIS

sddm-greeter [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION

sddm is a display and login manager based on Qt technologies.

Using QtQuick and QML, designers are given the ability to easily create pleasant, modern looking interfaces for sddm.

sddm-greeter is an auxiliary process that displays the greeter, a graphical user interface to perform the authentication and select the session to run.

It is launched by the sddm daemon, end users are not meant to run it.

OPTIONS

--theme PATH

Specify theme full path.

--socket NAME

Specify the socket used to communicate with sddm daemon.

--test-mode

Start greeter in test mode.

--help, -h

Show help message and exit.

FILES

/usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d

System configuration directory

/etc/sddm.conf.d

Local configuration directory

/etc/sddm.conf

Local configuration file for compatibility

/usr/share/sddm/themes

Where sddm looks for themes

SEE ALSO

sddm(1), sddm.conf(5)

The full documentation for sddm is available at https://github.com/sddm/sddm