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JoMaZu787

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Greetd not starting greeter

When I start my computer with greetd installed and enabled (systemctl enable greetd.service), instead of getting a login prompt, I get a shell as the greeter user.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Greetd not starting greeter

If reading the docs is any indication, that's expected, see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Greetd … figuration If not, what's in your journal?

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Last edited by V1del (2025-01-26 11:23:17)

JoMaZu787

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Re: Greetd not starting greeter

https://0x0.st/8X6Q.txt

JoMaZu787

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Re: Greetd not starting greeter

Configuring the greeter run by greetd is done using the command option in the default_session section in /etc/greetd/config.toml. The included agreety greeter will be used if no changes are made. Also see #agreety.

By default, greeters are run as the greeter user. This can be changed by editing the user option in the default_session section of the configuration file and replacing another_user with the chosen user:

What part of this tells you that getting a terminal as the greeter user (not a login, just a straight up shell session with no password entry needed) is expected behavior?

dichead

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Registered: 2003-05-29

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Re: Greetd not starting greeter

I don't use greet but what did you actually install? Just greetd?

Greetd has greetd-agreety as its built-in greeter, however this is a minimal implementation. You should consider using one of the several available greeters

This would be why you were pointed to the wiki........

dichead

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Re: Greetd not starting greeter

pacman -Qe | grep greet

What's the output of this?