Starting Arch Linux, who starts some executables?

bivan · 2026-10-09 22:58:52

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 · 2026-10-09 23:11:26

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

Mod note: not an Arch Discussion, moving to NC.

seth · Yesterday 06:36:30

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

cfr · Yesterday 07:06:57

bivan wrote:

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 ...

bivan · Yesterday 07:10:55

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

Lone_Wolf · Today 08:56:35

For stuff that's started on demand through dbus no mechanism exists to disable them, there is however a way to prevent them from getting started .

Look in /usr/share/dbus-1/services and /usr/share/system-services folders .

example :
I have bad experiences with the systemd oom killer and don't want it to run unless I explcitily start it (which is very rare) .
If I remove /usr/share/system-services/org.freedesktop.oom1.service dbus no longer can start it on demand .

Upon next update of systemd it will be put back though. To get rid of it permanently you can use pacmans NoExtract option.
see man pacman for details.

WARNING :
This is similar to using a 200 pound sledgehammer to drive a pushpin in a wall .
Some can do that succesfully, many will damage the wall badly and some will hammer the wall into smithereens.

seth · Today 09:04:51

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/D-Bus - expansion notice, use /etc to shadow the dbus service.

Lone_Wolf · Today 09:20:20

Pity that whoever added that didn't mention where it is documented or when it became possible.
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Starting Arch Linux, who starts some executables?

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