tuigreet(1)

NAME

tuigreet - 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.

SEE ALSO

greetd(1)