agreety(1)

agreety1

A text-based greeter for greetd

Usage

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.

Overview

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.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 12
  2. 13
  3. Arch

Authors

Maintained by Kenny Levinsen <[email protected]>. For more information about greetd development, see https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/greetd.

From greetd-agreety 0.10.3-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.