sddm-greeter(1)

sddm-greeter1

Sddm display manager greeter

Usage

sddm-greeter [OPTIONS ...]

Overview

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-greeter is an auxiliary process that displays the greeter, a graphical user interface to perform the authentication and select the session to run.

It is launched by the sddm daemon, end users are not meant to run it.

Options

--theme PATH

Specify theme full path.

--socket NAME

Specify the socket used to communicate with sddm daemon.

--test-mode

Start greeter in test mode.

--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

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

From sddm 0.21.0-7 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.