seatd(1)

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version 0.9.3 · 8 versions
, in epel 10, fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ seatd — a seat management daemon ✨

okay so bestie, we're looking at seatd(1) from the General Commands Manual section, and honestly? it's giving infrastructure queen 👑

🌸 NAME 🌸

seatd — a seat management daemon 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

seatd [options]

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -h — prints the help message and dips out. that's it, that's the whole job 🫶
  • -n <fd> — the FD to notify readiness on. here's the vibe: a single newline gets written and the fd gets closed once seatd is ready to serve requests. this is compatible with s6's notification protocol ✨
  • -u <user> — the user who owns the seatd socket 👑
  • -g <group> — the group who owns the seatd socket 👑
  • -l <loglevel> — the log-level to use. must be one of debug, info, error or silent. defaults to error (lowkey chill of it tbh)
  • -v — shows the version number and quits 🎀

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so what does seatd actually do? it provides central seat management, mediating access to shared resources like displays and input devices in a multi-session, multi-seat environment. main character energy fr fr 💅

seatd operates over a UNIX domain socket, with libseat providing the client-side of the protocol. the two of them are a duo, a package deal, iconic 🫶

the location of the socket for seatd is set at compile-time. no take-backs, no runtime glow-ups on that one.

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

  • SEATD_VTBOUND — if set to "0", the seat will not be bound to a VT. noted bestie 📝

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the libseat library, <libseat.h>, seatd-launch(1) — go read those too, iykyk 💜

👑 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 🌸

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