Managing IBus with systemd

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Hi,

I’ve been trying to set up IBus as a systemd service on two boxes powered identically with Manjaro KDE (with i3 for a WM) and standalone i3 as an alternative.

The idea is to manage IBus once for any DE.

~ ᐅ cat .config/systemd/user/ibus-custom.service
[Unit]
PartOf=graphical-session.target

Description=IBus Service
After=graphical-session.target

[Service]
Type=exec
ExitType=cgroup
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/sleep 10
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ibus-daemon -drxR
Restart=no
TimeoutSec=15s
Slice=app.slice

[Install]
WantedBy=graphical-session.target

then

~ ᐅ systemctl enable --user ibus-custom

I have kinda three-fourths success on login:

Box A:

  • KDE: Ok
  • i3: Ok

Box B:

  • KDE: Ok
  • i3: Failure

On Box B logged into i3:

~ ᐅ systemctl status --user ibus-custom
 ibus-custom.service - IBus Service
     Loaded: loaded (/home/alexey/.config/systemd/user/ibus-custom.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)

No trouble starting the service manually:

~ ᐅ systemctl start --user ibus-custom

What do I have to look for?

2

Oh, it works on Box A no longer! I never touched anything systemd related. It’s a step in the right direction, in a way. I have better output now:

~ ᐅ systemctl status --user ibus-custom
○ ibus-custom.service - IBus Service
     Loaded: loaded (/home/alexey/.config/systemd/user/ibus-custom.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Sun 2023-01-01 17:31:47 MSK; 45s ago
   Duration: 5min 13.817s
    Process: 3118 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/sleep 10 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 3120 ExecStart=/usr/bin/ibus-daemon -drxR (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 3120 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 3.843s

Jan 01 17:26:23 gaucho systemd[640]: Starting IBus Service...
Jan 01 17:26:33 gaucho systemd[640]: Started IBus Service.
Jan 01 17:31:47 gaucho systemd[640]: ibus-custom.service: Consumed 3.843s CPU time.

Success through and through, the service is inactive (dead). What is it?

3

Are these flags correct? It seems it starts but finishes. For systemd, it should run in the foreground.
And I’ve never seen Type=exec, are you sure about that?

4

About /usr/bin/ibus-daemon -drxR I’m sure. At least, it’s been running fine in different contexts, including systemd (manual start, as I mentioned). About everything else I’m sure not at all.

Would you suggest removing Type=exec? UPD: It doesn’t make any difference.