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Allow touchegg to be run by systemd on-request #456

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tintou opened this issue Feb 12, 2021 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #457
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Allow touchegg to be run by systemd on-request #456

tintou opened this issue Feb 12, 2021 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #457
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tintou commented Feb 12, 2021

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Currently, the systemd config file makes it always start with the session. We can make it run only when it is required

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Systemd allows to start a service when another component requires its D-Bus service. It would be great to have touchegg only started by systemd when a component (like the compositor) is using it.

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This has been requested by Fedora maintainer in order to not have touchegg run on a pure GNOME session when installed for the Pantheon session.
@JoseExposito JoseExposito linked a pull request Feb 19, 2021 that will close this issue
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Hi @tintou, I'm looking into this issue... Without any luck for the moment.

Have you ever implemented something like this? I'd appreciate your help 😄

Following the docs, I added a service file in /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/io.github.joseexposito.Touchegg.service indicating that when a the interface is created it should run the service (SystemdService) and I also modified the current service type to Type=dbus.

However, the service starts running on boot (and fails) instead of waiting for the D-Bus interface to be created 🤔

Here is the WIP PR: #457

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Not SUPER helpful, but I know that this is how the notification-daemon package works. The actual package that I've seen that provides this is here. Perhaps that can help with reverse-engineering how to get it to behave?

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