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.

-d, --debug [FILE]
    Enables debug logging to the provided FILE path, or to /tmp/tuigreet.log if no file is specified.

-c, --cmd CMD
    Specify which command to run on successful authentication. This can be overridden by manual selection within tuigreet.

-s, --sessions DIR1[:DIR2]...
    Location of desktop-files to be used as Wayland session definitions. By default, Wayland sessions are fetched from /usr/share/wayland-sessions.

--session-wrapper 'CMD [ARGS]...'
    Specify a wrapper command to execute instead of the session for non-X11 sessions. This command will receive the session command as its arguments.

-x, --xsessions DIR1[:DIR2]...
    Location of desktop-files to be used as X11 session definitions. By default, X11 sessions are fetched from /usr/share/xsessions.

--xsession-wrapper 'CMD [ARGS]...'
    Specify a wrapper command to initialize X server and launch X11 sessions. By default, startx /usr/bin/env will be prepended to all X11 session commands.

--no-xsession-wrapper
    Do not wrap commands for X11 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).

--theme SPEC
    Define colors to be used to draw the UI components. You can find the proper syntax in the project's README.

--asterisks
    Add visual feedback when typing secrets, as one asterisk character for every keystroke. By default, no feedback is given at all.

--asterisks-char CHARS
    Change the default feedback character from an asterisk to a random distribution of the provided characters.

--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.

--greet-align [left|center|right]
    Alignment of the greeting text in the main prompt container (default: 'center').

--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.

--kb-[command|sessions|power] [1-12]
    change the default F-key keybindings to access the command, sessions and power menus.

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)