[systemd-devel] Please help me fix the fluidsynth.service file

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 2025-03-14 12:18, schrieb Mantas Mikulėnas:
> Depends on whether fluidsynth ever uses the pipewire API directly (in
> which case it should depend on pipewire.service) or whether it always
> goes through the compat shim (in which case it's enough to depend on
> pipewire-pulse.service, as that already indirectly depends on
> pipewire).

It uses either pipewire or pulseaudio directly. I am not sure what it 
does if pipewire mimics pulseaudio, but I guess it will still use 
pipewire directly in that case.

> I think that should work, yes.

Thank you!

> Hmm, I didn't know it uses /run/lock. This is a user service, not a
> system service, right?

Yes, it's a user service. The /run/lock condition is rather new, though, 
I haven't seen it before myself:

https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/commit/6072fe98395ea575b9e35a3eee0be612bdb277f5