Re:Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retr...
by zozbot234 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:45PM
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> However, if you login to a graphical desktop, that is not a text terminal, and therefore everything is effectively nohup'd
Systemd's revamped notion of "session" includes graphical ones. Yes, that's different from the legacy sense of a mere text-terminal window. But since they've had to reimplement the whole concept of graphical sessions anyway, they could have made them work like textual ones. If you're not running a session manager as part of your windowed environment (almost everyone is these days) the whole thing might break, but then you can just enable the hacky "lingering" mode to make it work and you're no worse off than before.
Systemd's revamped notion of "session" includes graphical ones. Yes, that's different from the legacy sense of a mere text-terminal window. But since they've had to reimplement the whole concept of graphical sessions anyway, they could have made them work like textual ones. If you're not running a session manager as part of your windowed environment (almost everyone is these days) the whole thing might break, but then you can just enable the hacky "lingering" mode to make it work and you're no worse off than before.