Seatd

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Seatd is a minimal seat management daemon, and a universal seat management library. Seat management takes care of mediating access to shared devices (graphics, input), without requiring applications like Wayland compositors being granted root privileges.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for sys-auth/seatd Minimal seat management daemon and universal library

`builtin`	Enable embedded server in libseat
`elogind`	Enable session tracking via sys-auth/elogind
`selinux`	!!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur
`server`	Enable standalone seatd server, replacement to (e)logind
`systemd`	Enable use of systemd-specific libraries and features like socket activation or session tracking

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Emerge

root #emerge --ask sys-auth/seatd

Service

OpenRC

To use the seatd service, the builtin and server USE flags must be enabled. In addition, users of seatd must be part of the video and seat groups:

root #gpasswd -a larry video

root #gpasswd -a larry seat

Add the seatd daemon to the default runlevel so that seat management is provided on system startup:

root #rc-update add seatd default

Start the seatd daemon now:

root #rc-service seatd start

External resources

seatd(1) - Man page for seatd
seatd-launch(1) - Man page for seatd-launch, to start a process with its own seatd instance