How to get a reliable on/off toggle for kdeconnect?

mox , 10 days ago

Petition the KDE maintainers to make it work like all the other KDE Background Services, rather than the ridiculous current approach of launching it at session start (whether the user wants it or not) and allowing systemd to automatically re-launch it (also against the user's wishes).

boredsquirrel OP , 10 days ago

Can you explain how systemd relaunches it?

I want to test converting some noncritical but annoying services to systemd services. Then I will experiment with changing all to systemd services in a VM.

But if there is some strange systemd action in there that relaunches things, this needs to be adapted too.

m4 , 10 days ago

I suspect @mox is confused somehow - as far as I know, KDEConnect does not provide any system service interface so systemd can handle it. It all happens in the KDE user session.

I know this because I don't use systemd and have KDEConnect working and autolaunching here.

mox , 10 days ago

I suspect @mox is confused somehow

Then you are mistaken.

Read the bug report, and look at /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.kdeconnect.service . I have observed the same behavior described there.

caseyweederman , 10 days ago

Well now I don't know who to believe!

ScriptFanix , 10 days ago

@mox
That's not a systemd service definition, it's a dbus one
@m4

mox , 10 days ago

That’s not a systemd service definition, it’s a dbus one

It's both. They can work together to accomplish the the launch.

https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-daemon.1.html#session_services

There are cases where systemd doesn't take part, but that's irrelevant to the point I made. (Nevertheless, my follow-up comment did mention dbus.)

boredsquirrel OP , 6 days ago

https://github.com/boredsquirrel/kde-systemd-services

boredsquirrel OP , 10 days ago

This will for sure come up when making something compatible with only systemd.

Even though this should also be very possible to implement in sysvinit etc.

mox , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

It uses a dbus service definition to make it re-launch when that service is called.