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sddm: the simple desktop display manager

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.

OPTIONS

--test-mode

Start daemon in test mode.

--help, -h

Show help message and exit.

FILES

/etc/sddm.conf

System configuration file

/usr/share/sddm/themes

Where sddm looks for themes