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seatd(1) General Commands Manual seatd(1) NAME seatd - A seat management daemon SYNOPSIS seatd [options] OPTIONS -h Show help message and quit. -n <fd> 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. -u <user> User to own the seatd socket. -g <group> Group to own the seatd socket. -l <loglevel> Log-level to use. Must be one of debug, info, error or silent. Defaults to error. -v Show the version number and quit. DESCRIPTION seatd provides central seat management, mediating access to shared re- sources such as displays and input devices in a multi-session, multi-seat environment. seatd operates over a UNIX domain socket, with libseat providing the client-side of the protocol. The location of the socket for seatd is set at compile-time. ENVIRONMENT SEATD_VTBOUND If set to "0", the seat will not be bound to a VT. SEE ALSO The libseat library, <libseat.h>, seatd-launch(1) AUTHORS 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. 2026-07-30 seatd(1)
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