tuigreet - Man Page
A graphical console greeter for greetd
Synopsis
tuigreet [Options]...
Options
- -h, --help
Show usage and exit.
- -v, --version
Print program version and exit.
- -c, --cmd CMD
Specify which command to run on successful authentication. This can be overriden by manual selection within tuigreet.
- -s, --sessions DIR1[:DIR2]...
Location of desktop-files to be used as session definitions. By default, sessions are fetched from /usr/share/xsessions and /usr/share/wayland-sessions.
- -w, --width COLS
Number of columns the main prompt area should take on the screen.
- -i, --issue
Print the content of /etc/issue at the top of the prompt area.
This option is mutually exclusive with --greeting.
- -g, --greeting GREETING
Specify the text to be displayed at the top of the prompt area.
This option is mutually exclusive with --issue.
- -t, --time
Print the current date and time at the top of the screen.
- --time-format FORMAT
Configure a custom strftime-compliant format string for the current date and time.
- --user-menu
Allow selecting a user from a graphical menu.
- --user-menu-min-uid
Minimum UID of the users to display in the selection menu.
- --user-menu-max-uid
Maximum UID of the users to display in the selection menu.
- -r, --remember
Remember the username of the last successfully opened session, so the username field will be pre-filled on the next run.
- --remember-session
Remember the last selected session, effectively overriding the given --cmd option on subsequent runs.
- --remember-user-session
Remember the last opened session, per user (requires --remember).
- --asterisks
Add visual feedback when typing secrets, as one asterisk character for every keystroke. By default, no feedback is given at all.
- --asterisks-char CHAR
Change the default feedback character from an asterisk to the provided character.
- --window-padding COLS
Add spacing between the edge of the screen area the drawing area.
- --container-padding COLS
Add spacing between the border of the main prompt area and its contents.
- --prompt-padding ROWS
Add spacing between form fields.
- --power-shutdown CMD [ARGS]...
Customize the command run when instructed to shut down the machine. This must be a non-interactive command (sudo cannot prompt for a password, for example).
- --power-reboot CMD [ARGS]...
Customize the command run when instructed to reboot the machine. This must be a non-interactive command (sudo cannot prompt for a password, for example).
- --power-no-setsid
Do not prefix power commands with setsid, which is used to detach it from current TTY.
Authors
Maintained by Antoine POPINEAU <antoine@popineau.eu>.
Contributed to by great people at https://github.com/apognu/tuigreet/graphs/contributors.
Development
Issue reporting and development discussion should happen at https://github.com/apognu/tuigreet.