On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:32:24PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to replace some /etc/xdg/autostart/app.desktop files with > systemd --user services. I believe these are better because then systemd > keywords such as 'After=' etc. can be used. > > Is this a use case systemd can be used for?
Hi, yes, systemd --user session can be used to start various user services, and in fact, recent gnome versions are doing exactly that. > Once the user logs in, the systemd --user service should start. Similar > to like /etc/xdg/autostart mechanism works. You can see systemd.unit(5) for the explanation of how to add services to various targets. For systemd --user the targets are described in systemd.special(7). > Using Debian jessie (stable) with systemd package version 215-17+deb8u4. > > How to do that? > > Is there any difference for a login console and an X session? You can hack on those units yourself, but this kind of general change of how the desktop is built should be done through distribution and upstream projects. It seems likely that just adding unit files will not be enough, various small modifications to the programs might be necessary. I'd suggest looking at existing user units present in Debian, converting some more packages where this makes sense, and submitting those unit files to the Debian maintainers to integrate them in the distribution or upstream. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
