[Solved] systemd/user : how to exit window manager & stop X?

Stalafin · 2013-04-22 12:44:32

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I have set up my system to user systemd units to start my environment (roughly following the wiki).

My problem is that I cannot exit my window manager (using “io (exitWith ExitSuccess)” in Xmonad): the service file starting the WM (xmonad) stops/exits with success, but the xorg.service keeps
running. I need to switch to TTY2, systemctl --user stop xorg.service by hand, then switch to TTY1, execute Ctrl-C, and then I finally get my login
prompt back.

This is a bit annoying, and I don't know how to fix it.

Here are the relevant (I think) unit files:

# xmonad.target
[Unit]
Description=XMonad
Wants=xorg.target
Wants=xinit.target
Requires=dbus.socket
AllowIsolate=true

[Install]
Alias=default.target

# xmonad.service
[Unit]
Description=Starts Xmonad
Before=xinitrc.target
After=xorg.target
Requires=xorg.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/xmonad
Environment=DISPLAY=:0
Restart=no


[Install]
WantedBy=xmonad.target
RequiredBy=xorg.service

As you can see, I have added the RequiredBy=xorg.service line at the bottom, hoping that if xmonad.service exits, so should xorg.service - but to
no avail.

What do I have to do in order to completely stop X and get my login prompt on TTY1 back?

EDIT: I am of course using the user-session-units.

Last edited by Stalafin (2013-04-22 13:54:45)

progandy · 2013-04-22 13:07:19

I think it would be better to remove the RequiredBy line since xorg does not require xmonad.

Last edited by progandy (2013-04-22 13:18:33)

Raynman · 2013-04-22 13:15:24

Why not use `systemctl --user exit`? (and bind it to a key in xmonad.hs)

Stalafin · 2013-04-22 13:54:05

Raynman wrote:

Why not use `systemctl --user exit`? (and bind it to a key in xmonad.hs)

I like this solution. It makes a lot of sense to actually do this stuff in terms of systemd. Thanks a lot for that suggestion!

renodesper · 2013-09-27 01:09:23

I know it's an old thread (not really old) but I have the same problem. The question is your solution doesnt work with me. It just give me an error like this:

Failed to issue method call: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files
Failed to issue method call: Process /bin/false exited with status 1

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[Solved] systemd/user : how to exit window manager & stop X?

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