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    [–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    How does one actually use systemd? I tried making a script to trigger every time I boot up but it didn't work out for me

    [–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    This should work. Add a file /home/username/.config/systemd/user/my_cool_service.service with this content:

    [Unit]
Description=My cool service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/home/username/my_cool_script.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

    Now add the script /home/username/my_cool_script.sh.

    #!/bin/bash
echo "Hello from my cool script."

    Enable and run the service.

    $ chmod +x /home/username/my_cool_script.sh
$ systemctl --user daemon-reload
$ systemctl --user enable my_cool_service.service
# Optional:
$ systemctl --user start my_cool_service.service 
$ journalctl -e --user-unit=my_cool_service # You should see the echoed string from the script.

    The service should now run every time the user username logs in.

    [–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

    Oh, thanks! My distro has a package that has a bunch of visual configurations that reset on boot and I wanted to do my configs on top

    [–] jim3692@discuss.online 5 points 2 days ago

    Did you set the WantedBy field?

    Did you systemctl enable the service?