seatd(8)

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💖 seatd — the seat management daemon bestie 💖

okay so picture this: seatd(8) is the little daemon from the System Manager's Manual who keeps everybody's seats sorted out, and honestly? she's iconic. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

seatd — a seat management daemon. yes that's the whole name. short, sweet, slays 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

seatd [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. just run her with whatever options you need 🎀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h — show the help message and then dip. quit. bye ✨
  • -n <fd> — the FD to notify readiness on. when seatd is ready to serve requests, she writes a single newline and closes the fd. and guess what, this is compatible with s6's notification protocol, no cap 🧚
  • -u <user> — the user who gets to own the seatd socket. give it to whoever deserves it 👑
  • -g <group> — the group that gets to own the seatd socket. same energy, group edition 🌈
  • -l <loglevel> — the log-level to use. it must be one of debug, info, error or silent. defaults to error. literally only those four, don't try to get cute 👀
  • -v — show the version number and quit. quick little flex, then exit 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so seatd provides central seat management, mediating access to shared resources like displays and input devices in a multi-session, multi-seat environment. that's the whole job. she's the middleman and she is thriving ✨

she operates over a UNIX domain socket, and libseat provides the client-side of the protocol — they're besties fr fr, one on each end of the socket 🫶

the location of the socket for seatd is set at compile-time. not runtime. not vibes-based. it's baked in at build time, periodt 💀

🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

  • SEATD_VTBOUND — if it's set to "0", the seat will not be bound to a VT. that's the whole rule. set it to "0" if you don't want that VT binding, leave it alone otherwise 🙈

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

go read those too, they're part of the lore iykyk 🔥

🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

Maintained by Kenny Levinsen <contact@kl.wtf>, who is assisted by other open-source contributors. for more info about seatd development, go peek at https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd 🌟

and that's the page bestie!! this was seatd(8), from the System Manager's Manual, dated 2026-03-03 — feel free to fold the page, kiss it goodnight, and go run your seats in peace 💖✨👑

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