Hi On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:02:20 -0600 Joe Zeff wrote: > Years ago I created a little script to play an .mp3 as a wake-up alarm, but > there was a little problem. I have my box set to turn itself back on after > a power drop if it was on before, but if it happens late at night, I won't > be logged in in the morning, and there wouldn't be any sound. systemd provides a way to achieve that with: loginctl enable-linger LOGNAME >From man loginctl: enable-linger [USER...], disable-linger [USER...] Enable/disable user lingering for one or more users. If enabled for a specific user, a user manager is spawned for the user at boot and kept around after logouts. This allows users who are not logged in to run long-running services. Takes one or more user names or numeric UIDs as argument. If no argument is specified, enables/disables lingering for the user of the session of the caller. As in addition PipeWire is launched with a user systemd socket/service that should work. A systemd user manager creates the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/UID) and has this variable in its environment: systemctl --user show-environment <snip> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 -- francis _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue