sessiond #

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

It exposes session management and VT activity 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

What is it? #

sessiond provides a session manager for registering, tracking, and querying user sessions over a public Hyprwire API. It watches virtual terminals and updates session foreground activity, and provides a partial org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit D-Bus interface for polkit integration.

What is it not? #

sessiond is not responsible for starting user service managers or managing seats. Starting and integrating a user service manager, as well as acquiring seats and managing seat devices, should be handled by a sessiond client.

See Clients for known sessiond clients.

Documentation #

• Installation
• Configuration
• Clients
• Known issues.