Elogind: Difference between revisions

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elogind is a login manager and provides support for

setting up necessary permissions for the desktop environment or window manager
handling poweroff, reboot, suspend and hibernate via loginctl command

Installation

# apk add elogind polkit-elogind

rc-update add elogind
rc-service elogind start

Set up a PAM login.

Configuration

logind.conf

Edit /etc/elogind/logind.conf to configure handling of power events, such as suspending the computer when power button is pressed:

# sed -i 's|#HandlePowerKey=poweroff|HandlePowerKey=suspend|' /etc/elogind/logind.conf

Working with Desktop Environments

If using a Window Manager or Desktop Environment, such as Sway, the user must ensure that login session is correctly configured. When correctly configured, the loginctl command should output the following:

Using Sway and SDDM

~$ loginctl SESSION UID USER SEAT TTY c1 105 sddm seat0 c2 1000 User seat0 tty8 2 sessions listed.

If the output is No session available., such as in the case of launching Sway from tty, suspend and many other functionality will not work. The user then must configure a display manager such as greetd, SDDM or lightdm.

@@ Line 8: / Line 8: @@
 {{Cmd|# apk add {{Pkg|elogind}} {{Pkg|polkit-elogind}}
 # rc-update add elogind
-# rc-service elogind start}}
+# rc-service elogind start }}
+Set up a [[PAM]] login.
 == Configuration ==
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 If the output is <code>No session available.</code>, such as in the case of launching Sway from tty, suspend and many other functionality will not work.  The user then must configure a display manager such as {{Pkg|greetd}}, [[SDDM]] or {{Pkg|lightdm|LightDM}}.
-=== PAM ===
-To use the XDG enviroment variables from elogind [[PAM]] has to be set up.
 == See also ==