agreety - Man Page

A text-based greeter for greetd

Synopsis

agreety [options]

Options

-h,  --help

Show help message and quit.​

-c,  --cmd <command>

Specifies the command to run on successful login.​ agreety will ask if none is specified.​

-f,  --max-failures <num>

Specifies the maximum number of login failures to accept before terminating.​ Defaults to 5.​

Description

agreety is a very simple text-based greeter, with an appearance similar to agetty(8) and login(1).​ It is bundled with greetd(1).​

To use agreety, configure it as your greeter in your greetd config file.​

Authors

Maintained by Kenny Levinsen <contact@kl.​wtf>.​ For more information about greetd development, see https://git.​sr.​ht/~kennylevinsen/greetd.​

See Also

greetd(1) greetd(5)

Referenced By

greetd(1).

2026-09-02