Seatd is a seat manager and provides user sessions (mostly compositors) with access to input and output devices.

See the seatd documentation for further details.

When using elogind, seatd is not required and viceversa.

Installation

apk add seatd       # install seatd
rc-update add seatd # configure it to auto-start
service seatd start # start it now
adduser $USER seat  # allow current user to access seatd