Re: systemd WantedBy for X login
On 2019-05-19 15:58 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote:
> I have a bunch of systemd user services for headless daemons that I want
> to run in both console and graphical logins, which all work fine, but I
> have one that I only want to start for graphical logins, and that works
> when I start it manually, but it is not being started when I log in,
> even though I have the WantedBy field set to graphical.target. I am
> using lightdm and i3.
How do you start lightdm? It should only be started automatically in
graphical.target.
> The other services' WantedBy field is set to
> default.target. What is the correct way to specify that a service
> should be started only for X logins?
The wantedBy field is the correct place to specify that, but you also
have to make sure that your X login is actually reached via
graphical.target.
Cheers,
Sven
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