On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Will Stephenson <wstephen...@kde.org> wrote: > > I'm joining the flock of desktop people investigating using systemd to start > a desktop session. So far I've checked out user-session-units and have > created some more granular unit files that will do a native systemd start > rather than u-s-u's wrapper around the upstream start script.
As Tom asked, I'm interested in these changes as well - do you have your code posted somewhere? Also, you're saying there's a "start script" somewhere, can you tell me what you mean by that? I don't understand what you refer to by "wrapper", either. Technically user-session-units doesn't wrap anything, it just provides straight unit files. One of them is derivative of user@.service from systemd, sure. > I'm stuck now, because I want to start a service with Type=dbus that puts a > service on the session bus, however, I can't see a way to specify the bus in > the unit file. you can insert variables into the user session by `systemctl --user set-environment DBUS_S....`. This is the only way to globally assign a dbus address to the session, but you'll have to do it before any significant service runs in the first place, which includes before dbus starts. > I don't want to use dbus activation here to start the service as that invokes > the chicken-egg problem that the service in question (kdeinit) job is to > start all the processes that will be calling it via dbus later. Long term I > would like to do away with this and perform this task via systemd too, but > Type=dbus on the session bus seems like a valid use case that should work. > > I see there's a way to get the dbus session bus address into systemd because > of the patch to fix this in user-session-units; would the right approach be > to add a BusInstance= field to service and use the provided session bus > address when watching for Type=dbus services that depend on user/dbus.service? all of this stuff seems to work just fine with user-session-units - of course the login/DM integration is wholly missing right now, but could you start with user-session-units and make modifications to get where you want? Cheers, Auke _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
