LIGHTDM(1)

💖 LIGHTDM 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the LIGHTDM(1) page — that's the General Commands Manual, section 1, and yes it's literally just called lightdm. pull up a chair, we're doing this. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

lightdm — a display manager 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lightdm [ OPTION ]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you run it, optionally with an option, and it does its little display-manager thing. iconic behavior honestly. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like. lightdm is a display manager. that's the entire description, no cap. it's the thing that shows you a login screen before your actual desktop shows up. main character of the boot sequence fr fr. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

every single flag, no skips, no shortcuts, periodt:

• -h, --help — shows you the help options. like a little "here's what I can do" moment. 🌸
• -c, --config=FILE — use FILE as the configuration file. you pick, it obeys. 💖
• -d, --debug — print debugging messages. it will be SO chatty and honestly? we love that for us. 🔥
• --test-mode — run as an unprivileged user, skipping the things that require root access. lowkey the safe little sandbox mode for when you're just vibing and don't want to commit. 🙈
• --pid-file=FILE — the FILE to write the PID into. 📝
• --xsessions-dir=DIRECTORY — the DIRECTORY to load X sessions from. 🦋
• --xgreeters-dir=DIRECTORY — the DIRECTORY to load X greeters from. yes greeters, they're real, they're the login screen besties. ✨
• --log-dir=DIRECTORY — the DIRECTORY to write logs to. for when you need receipts. 🧾
• --run-dir=DIRECTORY — the DIRECTORY to store running state in. 🌀
• --cache-dir=DIRECTORY — the DIRECTORY for cached information. (the manpage says "Directory to cached information" and we're not fixing it, we're just noting it and moving on 😭) 🍓
• -v, --version — show the release version. quick little "who am I" check. ⭐

✨ FILES ✨

the sacred texts, the little files it reads:

• /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf — Configuration 📄
• /etc/lightdm/users.conf — User list configuration (if not using Accounts Service) 👥
• /etc/lightdm/keys.conf — XDMCP keys 🔑

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go read dm-tool(1) too, it's the sibling, it's giving sidekick energy 🌈

okay so that's the whole page. everything's there, nothing's missing, we kept all the receipts. 🫶

this page is from the General Commands Manual, version LIGHTDM(1), dated 7 November 2013 — yeah she's an elder but she's still serving 💅✨ bye bestie, go log in 🌸