Usage/Experiences when using Cosmic on OpenRC

[simonvanderveldt]

I just wanted to create a place to share experiences/suggestions/fixes/etc for running Cosmic on a system that's running OpenRC. Thanks to the fixes in #11 emerging/compilation is working fine and Cosmic starts/runs as well 🎉

But things like pipewire, notifications, power settings don't work unless a service is running for them. I was wondering how people are handling this? Autostart isn't supported yet on Cosmic (pop-os/cosmic-session#67) and OpenRC doesn't have support for user-services yet (OpenRC/openrc#723).
I assume Cosmic on systemd uses user-services for all these components?

P.S. A discussion instead of a issue would've probably been better for this, but since discussions have been disabled hope this is OK for you :)

[fsvm88]

Have enabled discussions =) It's a feature I never used, and it was disabled by default with project creation =)

Feel free to move there.

Regarding user services: this is mostly automatically handled by systemd and/or Cosmic, I'm not doing anything special with it. IIRC cosmic-settings-daemon and cosmic-notifications are spawned automatically by Cosmic after first login (not sure which component, I'd guess cosmic-session).

I recall with the transition to pipewire I had to manually enable some services for the user, but that was a year ago now, I'm not sure what's the default state on a newly-created user. See Gentoo Wiki page.

Although I ran with it for a good decade, I am not using OpenRC anymore because pretty much every DE is heavily relying on systemd nowadays, and I really like not having to think about service restarts on servers.

[simonvanderveldt]

Have enabled discussions =) It's a feature I never used, and it was disabled by default with project creation =)

Feel free to move there.

Thanks! 👍 It's just semantics I guess in the end, issue vs discussion. I don't think I can move it, AFAIK only repo owners/with relevant repo permissions can do so.

Regarding user services: this is mostly automatically handled by systemd and/or Cosmic, I'm not doing anything special with it. IIRC cosmic-settings-daemon and cosmic-notifications are spawned automatically by Cosmic after first login (not sure which component, I'd guess cosmic-session).

Thanks for the pointer, I thought that this was all being handled by xdg-desktop-autostart.target but that doesn't seem to be the case. Booted the Cosmic alpha 3 ISO and this is the process tree

So greetd starts cosmic-session, which starts pretty much all cosmic components including cosmic-notifcations.
Interestingly enough cosmic-notifcations is missing for me on my gentoo system

root      3227     1  0 12:07 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
root      4188  3227  0 12:08 ?        00:00:00  \_ gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-password]
simon     4212  4188  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:00      \_ /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session --register-session /us
simon     4215  4212  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:00          \_ dbus-daemon --print-address 3 --session
simon     4217  4212  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:00          \_ /usr/bin/cosmic-session
simon     4225  4217 52 12:08 tty8     01:49:45              \_ cosmic-comp
simon     4279  4225  0 12:08 tty8     00:01:36              |   \_ Xwayland :0 -verbose -rootless -terminate -
simon     4305  4217  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:00              \_ cosmic-settings-daemon
simon     4314  4305  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:00              |   \_ /usr/libexec/geoclue-2.0/demos/agent
simon     4312  4217  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:51              \_ cosmic-panel
simon     4652  4312  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:00              |   \_ cosmic-applet-status-area
simon     4654  4312  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:03              |   \_ cosmic-applet-time
simon     4655  4312  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:38              |   \_ cosmic-applet-audio
simon     4659  4312  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:00              |   \_ cosmic-applet-power
simon     4664  4312  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:00              |   \_ cosmic-applet-battery
simon     4674  4312  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:03              |   \_ cosmic-applet-workspaces
simon     4676  4312  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:00              |   \_ cosmic-applet-tiling
simon     4678  4312  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:00              |   \_ cosmic-panel-button com.system76.CosmicWork
simon     4680  4312  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:00              |   \_ cosmic-applet-bluetooth
simon     4682  4312  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:00              |   \_ cosmic-applet-network
simon     4683  4312  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:04              |   \_ cosmic-app-list
simon     4313  4217  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:00              \_ cosmic-app-library
simon     4316  4217  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:22              \_ cosmic-launcher
simon    25512  4316  0 15:36 tty8     00:00:00              |   \_ pop-launcher
simon    25521 25512  0 15:36 tty8     00:00:00              |       \_ /usr/lib/pop-launcher/plugins/cosmic_to
simon    25522 25512  0 15:36 tty8     00:00:00              |       \_ /usr/lib/pop-launcher/plugins/pop_shell
simon     4325  4217  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:09              \_ cosmic-workspaces
simon     4332  4217  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:18              \_ cosmic-osd
simon     4340  4217  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:01              \_ cosmic-bg
simon     4348  4217  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:07              \_ cosmic-greeter
simon     4359  4217  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:02              \_ cosmic-files-applet
simon     4368  4217  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:00              \_ cosmic-idle
simon     4377  4217  0 12:08 tty8     00:00:15              \_ /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic

(it's still using GDM since I'm coming from GNOME, but I doubt that's the reason it isn't working).

I'll see if I can figure out why cosmic-notifications isn't being started and create a PR if there's anything to fix in any of the ebuilds.