On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:03:32 +0200 Klaus Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
I had the exactly same problem. […]
but i managed to get emacs.service working correctly […]
Unfortunately this was a half-baked solution (which I found out directly
after posting this). I played around with Gnome on X11 vs. Gnome on
Wayland and the given file was not enough.
Especially when running under Wayland it had problems with Xauthority.
I ended up with creating a new file
(by copying /usr/lib/systemd/user/emacs.service)
as follows:
=== .config/systemd/user/graphical-emacs.service ===
[Unit]
Description=Emacs text editor
Documentation=info:emacs man:emacs(1) https://gnu.org/software/emacs/
[Service]
Type=notify
ExecStart=/usr/bin/emacs --fg-daemon
# Emacs will exit with status 15 after having received SIGTERM, which
# is the default "KillSignal" value systemd uses to stop services.
SuccessExitStatus=15
# The location of the SSH auth socket varies by distribution, and some
# set it from PAM, so don't override by default.
Environment=SSH_AUTH_SOCK=%t/keyring/ssh
Restart=on-failure
[Install]
WantedBy=graphical-session.target
[Unit]
After=gnome-session-x11-services.target
=====================================================
I am not sure this could have been done with overrides, I just did not
manage to get “systemctl --user enable graphical-emacs” to create the
correct link.
Don't forget to
systemctl --user disable emacs
systemctl --user enable graphical-emacs
systemctl --user stop emacs
systemctl --user start graphical-emacs
I hope this works for you and others.
If it does (and does not have other drawbacks I don't understand with my
limited knowledge of systemd) providing a patched version of this file
in future releases could be helpful.
The EmacsWiki already knows about this:
<https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsAsDaemon> (I learned from this)
I basically stole the above from here:
<https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/74937/systemd-starts-emacs-daemon-without-xauthority-environment-variable-after-upgrad>.
This also was somehow helpful:
<https://askubuntu.com/questions/1499139/how-to-run-emacs-daemon-as-a-systemd-service-with-wayland-on-ubuntu-22-04>.
Klaus
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