Maybe useful: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/SystemdUser
I'll add that I was confused by this as systemd.special(7) says about graphical-session.target: This target is active whenever any graphical session is running. [...] and it took me a while to figure out that's not true in our case. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1743366 Title: The user session should run under systemd Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Currently the user session doesn't run under systemd. As a consequence: [Original Description] In Bionic the systemd .path units are not properly activated. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1743366/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp