Hello List, I would like to know if anybody knows something on using systemd as a session manager. What I mean as a session manager is something responsable for having some programs that I'd like to be running under certain circumpstances run under those. (e.g. nm-applet, xfcce4-power-manager, gnome-sound-applet etc.) The solution I use right now is to either put those on my .xinitrc or start those using the methods of whichever environment I happen to be using. I tend to use minimalistic window managers with many small programs to use as envionment, so that means scripting. It is sub-optimal for several reasons: a) Sometimes if you restart your window manager you get several instances of notification icons b) If you plug a new monitor on the computer sometimes the same effect happens c) If any of the programs halt, they won't restart automatically d) They are started as a shell spawn, serially, which can feel extremely slow, instead of in parallel This is also fact with applications that I want to autostart, such as Firefox, Liferea, Pidgin, terminal etc. Basically, I would like to know is: If there is a clean way to do this in systemd? Is it meant for it in some way or not even considered? P.S. Of course, I run systemd as my init system; I'm thinking aditionally to that. Cheers, Alessandro