greetd + QtGreet

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Nitrux uses greetd as the login daemon and QtGreet as the graphical greeter.

What is greetd?

greetd is a minimal, agnostic login daemon. It handles user authentication and session startup without being tied to a specific display server or desktop environment.

What is QtGreet?

QtGreet is a Qt/QML-based graphical greeter for greetd. Nitrux uses QtGreet with a custom theme called “nitrux.”

Session support

Nitrux only supports Wayland sessions (Hyprland). X11 sessions are not available, even though greetd and QtGreet technically support them.

Configuration

The configuration file is located at /etc/qtgreet/config.ini.

Important Notes

greetd Documentation: https://man.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/greetd/