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lazystring

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Registered: 2018-01-12

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] Autostart plank using systemd

I'm currently attempting to write a unit file to automatically start plank upon boot by following this guide.

What I have so far is this:

/usr/lib/systemd/user/plank.service
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[Unit]
Description=Plank dock

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/plank

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

This works fine if I just want to start the service at some arbitrary time, but when enabling to start at boot, it fails with the following log messages:

Jan 14 11:39:42 hostname plank[798]: Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Jan 14 11:39:42 hostname systemd[792]: plank.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 14 11:39:42 hostname systemd[792]: plank.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

I'm assuming there is probably a dependency of plank that I'm not including in the unit file. Possibly something to do with X.Org Server or Gnome?

Any help (and possibly a short explanation of the dependencies here) would be much appreciated.

Last edited by lazystring (2018-01-14 20:48:01)

fsckd

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Re: [SOLVED] Autostart plank using systemd

Why start it from systemd and not the startup files of your your wm/de?

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Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] Autostart plank using systemd

Writing a systemd service file is the wrong approach for this.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Autostarting

Last edited by Slithery (2018-01-14 20:05:34)

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lazystring

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Registered: 2018-01-12

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Autostart plank using systemd

Awesome, thanks! I was able to add it as a startup application through the gnome-tweak-tool.