tuigreet1

A graphical console greeter for greetd

Usage

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.

--env KEY=VALUE: Environment variables to run the default session with (can appear more then once).

-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.

Development

Issue reporting and development discussion should happen at https://github.com/NotAShelf/tuigreet.

History

Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
Debian 13 (Trixie)

--env since Arch Linux 2026-11-01.

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