El mar, 24 feb 2026 a las 12:23, Jan Braun escribió: > > I'd absolutely want to be able to open several terminals, so supervising > st would be silly. > If you really want your Browser/mail/file manager to be always running > in your graphical session (including to automatically pop up again > should you close them), you could. Imho, it's of dubious value, unless > you're setting up an unprivileged "kiosk" pc/account, where you want to > ensure that those programs (and presumably only those) are always > present. > > Xserver, window manager and user dbus lend themselves well to being > supervised, provided you handle $DISPLAY correctly. > On the other hand, if any of those crash, restarting them is probably an > insignificant part of the effort to get your state back to working > condition. Thus, imho, supervising them doesn't buy you much either.
I agree. On my Gentoo system the only things of that kind that are handled by s6-rc —and therefore supervised by s6 because they are defined as longruns— are the display manager (SDDM) and the system-wide message bus (dbus-daemon --system), which is exactly what would be handled by OpenRC in the standard setup. Nothing else desktop-related. G.
