seatd-launch(1)

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version 0.9.3 · 14 versions
, in epel 10, fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ seatd-launch(1) ✨

okay bestie, this is the seatd-launch page from the General Commands Manual, and it is literally the little helper that gets you your own private seatd. buckle up 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

seatd-launch — start a process with its own seatd instance 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

seatd-launch [options] [--] command

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -l <loglevel> — the log-level you wanna hand off to seatd. want the deets on which log-levels exist? go peek at seatd(1), it's all there, no cap.
  • -h — show the help message and dip. that's it, that's the whole job 🙈
  • -v — show the version number and dip. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: seatd-launch spins up a seatd instance with its very own dedicated socket path, waits for it to be ready ready, and then starts the command you asked for with SEATD_SOCK set appropriately. and the way that it's obsessed with cleanup?? the moment your command terminates, the seatd instance gets terminated too. periodt. 🫶

now, seatd needs root privileges to do its whole thing. you can get there two ways: SUID on seatd-launch, or just running seatd-launch as root. seatd-launch will drop privileges from the effective user down to the real user before running your command — and if the real user is root, that's simply a noop, so nothing happens there. ⚠️ but listen: you should only run seatd-launch as root if you intend for the specified command to run as root as well. like, actually intend it. fr fr.

seatd-launch serves a similar purpose to the libseat "builtin" backend, but bestie it is superior to it for two reasons:

  1. The specified command never runs as root 🌈
  2. The standard seatd executable and libseat backend is used 👑

🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

seatd-launch exits with the status of its child. and if the child terminates on a signal N, then seatd-launch exits with the status 128 + N. math is math 💀

if seatd-launch fails because of another error, it exits with a non-zero status. that's your red flag, bestie.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The libseat library, <libseat.h>, seatd(1)

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Maintained by Kenny Levinsen <contact@kl.wtf>, who is assisted by other open-source contributors. wanna know more about seatd development? go look at https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd. iykyk 🧚

and that's a wrap on this one, bestie — this page was living its 2026-03-01 moment, brought to you by the seatd-launch(1) crew. slay, stay hydrated, and always drop your privileges 💅🍓💖

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