dde-seatd(1)                General Commands Manual               dde-seatd(1)

NAME
       dde-seatd - A seat management daemon

SYNOPSIS
       dde-seatd [options]

OPTIONS
       -h
           Show help message and quit.

       -n <fd>
           FD to notify readiness on. A single newline will be written and the
           fd closed when seatd is ready to serve requests. This is compatible
           with s6's notification protocol.

       -s <path>
           Override the libseat-compatible socket path. If not specified,
           dde-seatd uses the compile-time default path.

       -c <path>
           Enable the DDE control socket at the specified path.

       -u <user>
           User to own the seatd socket.

       -g <group>
           Group to own the seatd socket.

       -l <loglevel>
           Log-level to use. Must be one of debug, info, error or silent.
           Defaults to error.

       -v
           Show the version number and quit.

DESCRIPTION
       dde-seatd provides central seat management, mediating access to shared
       resources such as displays and input devices in a multi-session,
       multi-seat environment.

       seatd operates over a UNIX domain socket, with libseat providing the
       client-side of the protocol.

       The libseat-compatible socket path defaults to the compile-time
       location, but can be overridden with -s. When -c is specified,
       dde-seatd also exposes a separate DDE control socket used by DDM to
       manage grouped VTs.

ENVIRONMENT
       SEATD_VTBOUND
           If set to "0", the seat will not be bound to a VT.

SEE ALSO
       The DDE libseat-compatible library, <libseat.h>, dde-seatd-launch(1)

AUTHORS
       Maintained by Kenny Levinsen <contact@kl.wtf>, who is assisted by other
       open-source contributors. For more information about seatd development,
       see https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd.

                                  2026-07-28                      dde-seatd(1)