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bivan

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Starting Arch Linux, who starts some executables?

Start Arch Linux KDE > System Monitor > Applications > Background Services: a list of some executables, (alll?) located in /usr/bin, e.g. plasmashell, pipewire, dbus-broker...

Who starts these executables?

WorMzy

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Re: Starting Arch Linux, who starts some executables?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/User

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Re: Starting Arch Linux, who starts some executables?

Also https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Autostarting and https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Introducti … 0obtain%3A and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

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Re: Starting Arch Linux, who starts some executables?

Start Arch Linux KDE > System Monitor > Applications > Background Services: a list of some executables, (alll?) located in /usr/bin, e.g. plasmashell, pipewire, dbus-broker...

There is not any such thing as 'Arch Linux KDE' and you do not explain how you started it.

You presumably started them, probably by executing either startplasma-x11 or startplasma-wayland (at least for the first two), which started something which started something else ...

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bivan

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Re: Starting Arch Linux, who starts some executables?

Well it was the general question, see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=315162 .