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6 tuigreet - A graphical console greeter for greetd
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9 tuigreet [OPTIONS]...
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12 -h, --help
13 Show usage and exit.
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15 -v, --version
16 Print program version and exit.
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18 -c, --cmd CMD
19 Specify which command to run on successful authentication. This can
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22 -s, --sessions DIR1[:DIR2]...
23 Location of desktop-files to be used as session definitions. By de‐
24 fault, sessions are fetched from /usr/share/xsessions and
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27 -w, --width COLS
28 Number of columns the main prompt area should take on the screen.
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31 Print the content of /etc/issue at the top of the prompt area.
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35 -g, --greeting GREETING
36 Specify the text to be displayed at the top of the prompt area.
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41 Print the current date and time at the top of the screen.
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44 Configure a custom strftime-compliant format string for the current
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47 --user-menu
48 Allow selecting a user from a graphical menu.
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51 Minimum UID of the users to display in the selection menu.
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54 Maximum UID of the users to display in the selection menu.
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57 Remember the username of the last successfully opened session, so
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61 Remember the last selected session, effectively overriding the
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65 Remember the last opened session, per user (requires --remember).
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68 Add visual feedback when typing secrets, as one asterisk character
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72 Change the default feedback character from an asterisk to the pro‐
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76 Add spacing between the edge of the screen area the drawing area.
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79 Add spacing between the border of the main prompt area and its con‐
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83 Add spacing between form fields.
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85 --power-shutdown CMD [ARGS]...
86 Customize the command run when instructed to shut down the machine.
87 This must be a non-interactive command (sudo cannot prompt for a
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90 --power-reboot CMD [ARGS]...
91 Customize the command run when instructed to reboot the machine.
92 This must be a non-interactive command (sudo cannot prompt for a
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96 Do not prefix power commands with setsid, which is used to detach
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100 Maintained by Antoine POPINEAU <antoine@popineau.eu>.
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102 Contributed to by great people at https://github.com/apognu/tui‐
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106 Issue reporting and development discussion should happen at
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