Hi Jeff,
what I tried to outline before for virsh applies to virt-manager as well as 
they are all just libvirt frontends.

So the default of qemu:///system will be a system owned guest with all
the implications (good and bad) that come with it.

If you want to run "as user" it should be qemu:///session as shown above.
The same works for virt-manager.
You can go to "File -> Add connection" and enter "qemu:///session" as custom 
URL.
With a guest started like that I have:
- running qemu-system-x86_64 as my UID
  F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
  2  1000 11683     1  20   0 1856652 333760 poll_s Sl ?          3:51 
qemu-sys...
- my disk image still self-owned
  -rw------- 1 paelzer paelzer 16108814336 Aug 10 07:34 
  /home/paelzer/.local/share/libvirt/images/qemu-session-18.04.qcow2

As I mentioned before user session comes OTOH with other implications.
The one I heard most about are issues with networking that needs different 
setup and some help to get working depending on the network setup.

My default case - install from 18.04 ISO in virt-manager with
qemu:///session that I just tried worked for me (including network to
external sites).

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