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.TH "seatd" "1" "2024-10-30"
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.SH NAME
.PP
seatd - A seat management daemon
.PP
.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP
\fBseatd\fR [options]
.PP
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
\fB-h\fR
.RS 4
Show help message and quit.\&
.PP
.RE
\fB-n <fd>\fR
.RS 4
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.\&
.PP
.RE
\fB-u <user>\fR
.RS 4
User to own the seatd socket.\&
.PP
.RE
\fB-g <group>\fR
.RS 4
Group to own the seatd socket.\&
.PP
.RE
\fB-l <loglevel>\fR
.RS 4
Log-level to use.\& Must be one of debug, info, error or silent.\& Defaults
to error.\&
.PP
.RE
\fB-v\fR
.RS 4
Show the version number and quit.\&
.PP
.RE
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
seatd provides central seat management, mediating access to shared resources
such as displays and input devices in a multi-session, multi-seat environment.\&
.PP
seatd operates over a UNIX domain socket, with \fBlibseat\fR providing the
client-side of the protocol.\&
.PP
The location of the socket for seatd is set at compile-time.\&
.PP
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.PP
\fBSEATD_VTBOUND\fR
.RS 4
If set to "0", the seat will not be bound to a VT.\&
.PP
.RE
.SH SEE ALSO
.PP
The libseat library, \fB<libseat.\&h>\fR, \fBseatd-launch\fR(1)
.PP
.SH AUTHORS
.PP
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.\&