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* Greatly improved logging by using systemd's [http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journald.service.html journald] - goodbye horrible piece of log-target called ''~/.xsession-errors'' | * Greatly improved logging by using systemd's [http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journald.service.html journald] - goodbye horrible piece of log-target called ''~/.xsession-errors'' | ||
* Better control over system resources (e.g. ensure GUI elements are always responsive) via systemd's builtin [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ControlGroupInterface/ cgroup control interface] | * Better control over system resources/process priorities (e.g. ensure GUI elements are always responsive) via systemd's builtin [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ControlGroupInterface/ cgroup control interface] | ||
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Revision as of 05:31, 18 June 2014
Plasma Workspace as systemd user-session
Ultimate Goal
The ultimate goal of this project is, to make use of systemd's support for user-sessions wherever possible for running a Plasma Workspace. This support is to be implemented in a way which doesn't get in the way of legacy/cross-platform support, so running a Plasma Workspace without a systemd user-session underneath will still be possible.
What are the benefits?
- Parallelized and faster startup of the Plasma Workspace after login
- More finegrained control over running services
- Increased stability by eliminating existing hacks in startkde, ksmserver, kdeinit, …
- Cleaner definition of dependencies between Plasma Workspace components
- Increased security
- Greatly improved logging by using systemd's journald - goodbye horrible piece of log-target called ~/.xsession-errors
- Better control over system resources/process priorities (e.g. ensure GUI elements are always responsive) via systemd's builtin cgroup control interface
Resources
user-session units for Plasma Workspace
I created some initial user-session units for Plasma Workspace which can be found on GitHub.
Unsorted items
This is a collection of items, notes and other things which need to be taken care of. They need to be investigated and properly documented.
ksmserver
ksmserver does a lot of ugly (from systemd's perspective) things which need to be evaluated:
- tries to start a WM in ksmserver/startup.cpp → launchWM which should be left to systemd
- doesn't register itself as session leader via systemd-logind which breaks a lot of session related functionality. Documented in bug#335390
ksplashqml
Relies on a serial startup of the components, but isn't able to deal with a parallelized startup. If the final result is a really fast startup, a splash screen might be not needed anymore. If the startup still takes "enough" time to show a splash screen, ksplashqml needs to be reworked to be able to deal with a parallelized startup.