sessiond#

sessiond is a session management daemon for systems that do not want to depend on (e)logind.

It exposes session and seat management over the Hyprwire protocol:

• protocols/session_management_v1.xml: unsafe session creation and destruction meant to be used with pam
• protocols/session_management_v2.xml: owned session creation and destruction
• protocols/session_core_v1.xml: querying session information
• protocols/seat_v1.xml: acquiring seats

What is it?#

sessiond provides:

• A session manager for registering, tracking, and querying user sessions
• Public API over hyprwire protocol
• A seat manager for acquiring seats and managing seat devices
• A partial org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit D-Bus interface for polkit integration

What is it not?#

sessiond is not responsible for starting user service managers. Starting and integrating a user service manager should be handled by a sessiond client.

See Clients for known sessiond clients.

Documentation#

• Installation
• Seat manager
• Clients
• Known issues.