NAME

       sddm - the simple desktop display manager

SYNOPSIS

       sddm [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION

       sddm is a display and login manager based on Qt technologies.

       Using  QtQuick  and QML, designers are given the ability to easily create pleasant, modern
       looking interfaces for sddm.

       sddm runs the greeter as a system user named sddm whose home directory needs to be set  to
       /var/lib/sddm.

       If  pam  and systemd are available, the greeter will go through logind, which will give it
       access to drm devices.

       Distributions without pam and systemd will need to put the sddm user into the video group,
       otherwise errors regarding GL and drm devices might be experienced.

       For  X11  sessions,  the  cookie  for  X  authorization  is  written into a temporary file
       /tmp/xauth_XXXXXX, owned and only accessible by the user.

OPTIONS

       --test-mode
              Start daemon in test mode.

       --example-config
              Print the complete current configuration to stdout

       --help, -h
              Show help message and exit.

FILES

       /usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d
              System configuration directory

       /etc/sddm.conf.d
              Local configuration directory

       /etc/sddm.conf
              Local configuration file for compatibility

       /usr/share/sddm/themes
              Where sddm looks for themes

SEE ALSO

       sddm.conf(5)

       The full documentation for sddm is available at https://github.com/sddm/sddm