Saddle

Saddle is an asynchronous Rust library designed to simplify the management of user seats in a Linux environment. It provides a Rust-native, future-based API for obtaining and releasing user sessions, opening and closing devices securely, and monitoring session state changes.

Features

• Async-first API: Built with Tokio and designed for asynchronous applications
• Session Management: Obtain, release, and monitor user sessions
• Device Access: Open and close devices securely without requiring root privileges
• VT Switching: Support for switching between virtual terminals
• Event Streams: Monitor session state changes with async streams

Supported Backends

Currently, Saddle uses the freedesktop login1 interface as its backend, which is compatible with both systemd-logind and elogind systems.

Future releases will include support for seatd IPC interface.

Examples

For a comprehensive example demonstrating how to use Saddle with libinput for handling input devices and implementing VT switching, see the VT switcher example.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License. For more information, please see the LICENSE file.