# tuigreet/tuigreet

Graphical console greeter for greetd

Repository: https://github.com/tuigreet/tuigreet
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tuigreet
Language: Rust
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: greetd, login, linux, wayland, xorg, tui
Last push: 2026-08-26T04:17:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 98, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2258, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 13, "gap_med": 8, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1745, forks 78 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:30.612090+00:00)

## What it is
tuigreet is a terminal-based graphical console greeter for greetd, providing a login interface with session management, user selection, and power controls. It is a maintained fork of the original tuigreet with a cleaner codebase, themeable UI, background animations, and multi-language support.

## Use cases
- replace a display manager with a lightweight greetd greeter
- show a terminal login prompt on a Wayland or Xorg Linux system
- remember the last logged-in username and session between reboots
- customize the login screen with greetings, issue file, and clock
- launch desktop sessions from .desktop files at login
- add power controls like shutdown and reboot to the login screen

## When to choose
- you use greetd and want a minimal, terminal-based greeter
- you run a Wayland or Xorg Linux setup without a full display manager
- you want session persistence and user menus without heavy dependencies
- you prefer a themeable, customizable login prompt

## When to avoid
- you need a full graphical display manager with mouse-driven login
- you don't use greetd as your session manager
- you need remote or network authentication beyond PAM

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: auth, terminal-ui, gui
- domain: operating-systems, security, self-hosted
- platform: cli
- tags: greetd, login-manager, display-manager, wayland, tui, rust, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- tuigreet/tuigreet (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:30.612090+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:29:17.510414+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tuigreet/tuigreet (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:30.612090+00:00, sha 220ad6f3b5a2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.