Integration of the Emacs server with systemd
Since Emacs 26, the Emacs server can be launched by systemd through socket-based activation.
Questions tagged [systemd-integration]
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Unable to connect using emacsclient
I am starting the emacs server using
systemctl --now --user enable emacs
That server is running, if I run
systemctl --user status emacs
I got
$ systemctl --user status emacs
● emacs.service - Emacs text editor
Loaded: loaded…
nanounanue
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Can't start emacs.service, but manual start works fine
My emacs.service looks like this:
denis@dgecko:~> cat /home/denis/.config/systemd/user/emacs.service
[Unit]
Description=Emacs text editor
Documentation=info:emacs man:emacs(1) https://gnu.org/software/emacs/
[Service]
Type=forking
# I added -q…
dgan
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emacsclient starts a new instance instead of contacting the server started by systemd
Log into Gnome
emacs-server is started by systemd, using the default configuration of my distribution (Fedora 36):
[Unit]
Description=Emacs text editor
Documentation=info:emacs man:emacs(1)…
dmvianna
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Systemd starts emacs daemon without XAUTHORITY environment variable after upgrading to Fedora 37
Problem
I am running Emacs daemon as a user service using Systemd, following the documentation in EmacsWiki. I configured it while using Fedora-36, and everything was working as expected. Once I upgraded to Fedora-37, emacsclient -c started failing…
Thomas
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emacs 27 (lucid toolkit) daemon crashes every couple of minutes
Some variant of this has been asked before - emacs daemon crashing when it has been built with Gtk3 etc - but I couldn't find any solution to this.
I've built Emacs 27.1 from source on Xubuntu 20.04 with --with-x-toolkit=lucid. I then copied…
aNaravi
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emacsclient exits unexpectedly without any error
I've built GNU Emacs 27.0.50 from source in Ubuntu 18.10. Then started the daemon as a systemd unit:
[Unit]
Description=Emacs text editor
Documentation=info:emacs man:emacs(1)…
marcanuy
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