CKGreeter: Just another greeter

A simple GreetD greeter written in Rust.

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Installation

Requirements

• GreetD
• A Wayland compositor, cage is used in the example

If building from source

• Rust/Cargo

CKGreeter Install

Building from source

• sudo cargo install --git https://codeberg.org/CanadianBaconBoi/CKGreeter.git --bin ckgreeter --root /usr/bin

or Prebuilt binary

• mkdir ./ckgreeter && cd ./ckgreeter
• wget https://codeberg.org/CanadianBaconBoi/CKGreeter/releases/download/v0.0.1/ckgreeter-linux-x86_64-v0.0.1.tgz
• tar -xf ckgreeter-linux-x86_64-v0.0.1.tgz
• sudo mv ckgreeter /usr/bin
• sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/ckgreeter
• sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/ckgreeter

Setup Directories

• sudo mkdir -p /{etc,var/cache}/ckgreeter
• sudo chown greetd:greetd /var/cache/ckgreeter

Configure GreetD

• Add the following line to /etc/greetd/greetd.conf
• command = "cage -s -d -- /usr/bin/ckgreeter"

Configuration

The configuration file is located at /etc/ckgreeter/config.toml

Example configurations can be found in examples/config/

The config needs to be copied to /etc/ckgreeter/config.toml before the greeter can be run.

Screenshots

CKGreeter, with search query 'slot canyon' and x/wayland session detection enabled

License

• Commits on or after 17.06.2026: Licensed under the Functional Source License, Version 1.1, MIT Future License.
• Prior unlicensed commits (before 17.06.2026): Copyright (c) 2026 CanadianBaconBoi. All rights reserved.