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This has been asked many times in some form or another but none of the advice seems to have helped.

I want to run syndaemon after I login to the GUI, but I always have to start it manually

$ systemctl --user status syndaemon.service
● syndaemon.service - Syndaemon Service
     Loaded: loaded (/home/tastywheat/.config/systemd/user/syndaemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
$ systemctl --user start syndaemon.service
$ systemctl --user status syndaemon.service
● syndaemon.service - Syndaemon Service
     Loaded: loaded (/home/tastywheat/.config/systemd/user/syndaemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2021-04-11 00:33:54 CDT; 3s ago
   Main PID: 5032 (syndaemon)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/syndaemon.service
             └─5032 /usr/bin/syndaemon -i 0.8 -R -t -k

It doesn't appear that there was any attempt to start the service either (it only shows here because I started it manually).

$ grep -ir syndaemon /var/log/syslog
Apr 11 00:33:54 xtrnmntr systemd[1068]: Started Syndaemon Service.

I also followed advice regarding the use of loginctl enable-linger.

$ find /var/lib/systemd/linger/
/var/lib/systemd/linger/
/var/lib/systemd/linger/tastywheat

And I tried an alternative method of modifying logind.conf.

$ grep -ir tastywheat /etc/systemd/logind.conf 
KillExcludeUsers=tastywheat

Also my user-service, in case that's at fault:

$ cat ~/.config/systemd/user/syndaemon.service 
[Unit]
Description=Syndaemon Service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/syndaemon -i 0.8 -R -t -k


[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

I guess I don't mind if I have to move this service into /etc/systemd but I didn't want to have to use sudo every time I tweaked this or some other user service.

TastyWheat
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  • Try this answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/364126/160267 and this: https://askubuntu.com/a/859583/459561 – George Udosen Apr 11 '21 at 07:07
  • I make something like this (something sould be start with my desktop session) with a desktop file in $HOME/.config/autostart – nobody Apr 11 '21 at 07:59
  • @GeorgeUdosen The appearance of my username in /var/lib/systemd/linger/ should be proof that loginctl enable-linger USER was applied. I added RequiresMountsFor but no change. – TastyWheat Apr 11 '21 at 21:53
  • To make a long story short you are trying to disable the touchpad when you are typing on the keyboard so your palm(s) are interpreted as mouse clicks or moves? – WinEunuuchs2Unix Apr 11 '21 at 22:10
  • Not sure mkdir $HOME/.config/environment.d/ Put a file in it with suffix .conf and following content DISPLAY=:0 – nobody Apr 12 '21 at 10:13
  • I have the similar issue now with Ubuntu 22.04. @TastyWheat, did you solve this issue? – ywiyogo May 01 '22 at 12:00
  • @ywiyogo I didn't quite "solve" the issue. I used the workaround of placing a desktop file in my ~/.config/autostart directory. – TastyWheat Jun 11 '22 at 03:39

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