Seatd

Seatd is a seat management daemon, that does everything it needs to do. Nothing more, nothing less. Depends only on libc. Seat management takes care of mediating access to shared devices (graphics, input), without requiring the applications needing access to be root.

When using elogind, seatd is not required and viceversa. Don't add both to auto-start.

Installation

Install the seatd package and add the seatd service to auto-start using OpenRC:

# apk add seatd # rc-update add seatd # service seatd start

To add the currently logged in user to seat group issue the command:

$ doas adduser $USER seat

If you are already logged in as a $USER, you will need to relogin.

Polkit can be configured and used for authentication with seatd.

Configuration

Ensure that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set before starting your Wayland compositor.

See also

• seatd documentation
• sway wiki