SDDM-GREETER(1) sddm SDDM-GREETER(1)

sddm-greeter - sddm display manager greeter

sddm-greeter [OPTIONS...]

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-greeter is an auxiliary process that displays the greeter, a graphical user interface to perform the authentication and select the session to run.

It is launched by the sddm daemon, end users are not meant to run it.

Specify theme full path.
Specify the socket used to communicate with sddm daemon.
Start greeter in test mode.
Show help message and exit.

/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

sddm(1), sddm.conf(5)

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

May 2014 sddm 0.21.0