I am now seeing the same thing in this bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/systemd/+bug/1627675 loginctl list-seats SEAT seat0 seat1 Seat number order changes between boots. This make is difficult for software to know which seat has the touchscreen. I now have to do something like this: ps -ef |grep "xorgSeat1.conf"|grep "X"|sed -e 's/^.*X //' -e 's/ -config.*$//' :1