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, debug │ Sets the seatd log level. Defaults to "error"             │
       └───────────────┴────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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)