SDDM(1)                              sddm                              SDDM(1)

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

sddm 0.21.0                        May 2014                            SDDM(1)