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 tem-
porary 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)
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