NAME

       seatd - A seat management daemon

SYNOPSIS

       seatd [options]

OPTIONS

       -h
           Show help message and quit.

       -n
           FD to notify readiness on. A single newline will be written and the fd closed when
           seatd is ready to serve requests. This is compatible with s6's notification protocol.

       -u <user>
           User to own the seatd socket.

       -g <group>
           Group to own the seatd socket.

       -s <path>
           Where to create the seatd socket. Defaults to `/run/seatd.sock`.

       -v
           Show the version number and quit.

DESCRIPTION

       seatd provides central seat management, mediating access to shared resources such as
       displays and input devices in a multi-session, multi-seat environment.

       seatd operates over a UNIX domain socket, with libseat providing the client-side of the
       protocol.

ENVIRONMENT

       ┌───────────────┬──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
       │VARIABLE       │ VALUES               │ DESCRIPTION                                      │
       ├───────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │SEATD_SOCK     │ File path            │ Informs libseat of the socket location, needed   │
       │               │                      │ if it differs from `/run/seatd.sock`             │
       ├───────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │SEATD_LOGLEVEL │ silent, error, info, │ Sets the seatd log level. Defaults to "error"    │
       │               │ debug                │                                                  │
       └───────────────┴──────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

SEE ALSO

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

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.

                                            2022-02-23                                   seatd(8)