sddm-greeter(1)

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version 0.21.0+git20251101.dfa5315 · 10 versions
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✨ sddm-greeter ✨

okay bestie, buckle up 💖 this is the manual page for sddm-greeter(1), which lives in the sddm section of the manual. she's an auxiliary little angel and she has OPINIONS. let's get into it 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sddm-greeter [OPTIONS...]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. <italic>OPTIONS...</italic> and we go 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first things first: sddm is a display and login manager, and she's built on Qt technologies. very demure, very modern ✨

and because she's powered by QtQuick and QML, designers get to just... casually cook 👩🍳 they can create pleasant, modern-looking interfaces for sddm without it being a whole thing. it's giving main character energy for your login screen, fr fr.

now sddm-greeter itself — she's the auxiliary process that displays the greeter. and what's a greeter, you ask? it's the graphical user interface that does two jobs: it performs the authentication 🔐 and it lets you select the session to run 🖥️ iconic behaviour, honestly.

🚨 IMPORTANT, NO CAP: the greeter is launched by the sddm daemon. end users are NOT meant to run it. if you're sitting there typing sddm-greeter into a terminal as a normal human, bestie... that's not your job 😭 that's the daemon's job. hands off the wheel 💀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

one bullet per flag, exactly as she wrote them, no notes:

  • --theme PATH — specify the theme's full path. the whole path, not a lil nickname, okay? 🌈
  • --socket NAME — specify the socket used to communicate with the sddm daemon. that's her little direct line to the mothership 📞
  • --test-mode — start the greeter in test mode. go ahead, play with it, it's giving rehearsal 🎭
  • --help, -h — show the help message and exit. the classic. the icon. the moment you need most 🫶

🎀 FILES 🎀

here's where everything lives, bookmark these:

  • /usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d — system configuration directory 🏢
  • /etc/sddm.conf.d — local configuration directory 🏠
  • /etc/sddm.conf — local configuration file, kept around for compatibility (legacy cute, don't @ her) 🕰️
  • /usr/share/sddm/themes — where sddm looks for themes 👀✨

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

go read her friends, they're all slaying:

and if you want the full documentation for sddm, it's available at:

https://github.com/sddm/sddm

iykyk 💜

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓

sddm 0.21.0 · May 2014 — and that's the cute lil sign-off, bestie. this was sddm-greeter(1) from the sddm manual. go forth and do not run the greeter yourself 😭💖

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