Starting an unit in user mode for all users

[grawity@xxxxxxxxx (Mantas Mikulėnas)]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 01:11 Alberto Salvia Novella <es20490446e at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm writing a SystemD service for a daemon that it only works in user
> mode. Its name is Xiccd <https://github.com/agalakhov/xiccd/issues/20>.
>
> The problem Iâ??m having is that either I can enable the service as system
> wide, or per user. But I cannot enable it in user mode for all users, only
> user by user.
>
> I just liked the daemon to be started like XDG Autostart does, but with
> the extra capabilities of SystemD. The point is that I have found no way to
> do that, neither in the documentation online or by asking people.
>

Note that systemd --user with the suggested default.target is *not* the
same as XDG Autostart: instead of starting for every graphical session,
units in this target start *before* the session (i.e. before X11 exists)
and a single instance of the service is shared across all sessions
(graphical, console, SSH...)

It is not uncommon to start graphical session components from systemd
--user, but default.target is not suitable for that. (There currently isn't
a standard .target that'd be suitable; it would need to be launched *by*
the graphical session manager, so until they all are taught about
systemd...)

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Mantas MikulÄ?nas
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