It's about time

Posted Oct 1, 2020 18:18 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
Parent article: Edmundson: Plasma and the systemd startup

I don't even know how often I've seen Shutdown hang because it waits for a user session to terminate. I'm confident that this will work a lot more reliably with systemd. Great work, guys!

It's about time

Posted Oct 2, 2020 1:52 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

GNOME's systemd-based session setup seems to work just fine.

It's about time

Posted Oct 2, 2020 11:34 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

KDE's work here is based on the work that Red Hat did with generating systemd service files out of desktop files for GNOME as noted in the blog. The underlying setup is the same and the benefits should be identical.

It's about time

Posted Oct 3, 2020 2:30 UTC (Sat) by jtgeibel (subscriber, #65153) [Link]

> I don't even know how often I've seen Shutdown hang because it waits for a user session to terminate.

I had never run into this before, until this week I decided to try out plasma on wayland. The experience was pretty good overall, with a few bugs, and this (or something similar) seemed to be one of them. When rebooting it took about 30 seconds for the session to exit and for things to proceed as normal. (Current sample size of 1 reboot after 2 or 3 days of usage.)

In any case, I'm excited about systemd startup as well. It sounds like it will consolidate and simplify some things, and may address bugs like this.