I'm tinkering to make my config more modular, and want to decouple autostarting some daemons from my WM e.g. udiskie, transmission-daemon, mpd, etc. I was wondering what the best way to do that was via dotfiles?

I remove these autostarting via services because by default my user can't access my music library via mpd, or  interact with the transmission-daemon etc. so I currently have them started via my WM's config file e.g.

(in ~/.config/i3/config)

exec --no-startup-id mpd
exec --no-startup-id transmission-daemon

etc.

My goal is to make my setup a bit more modular so that if/when I jump ship to a different WM, I won't need to configure as much. My first thought was to put these in ~/.bash_profile because I sometimes don't even run an X environment and just use a tty. However that felt off to me somehow because I've not heard of it before.

Anyone have any reckons or any experience with this? Is putting this stuff in ~/.bash_profile ok? Or should I be using the services better? Something else? Ideally it's something I can write into a config somewhere to manage as part of my dotfiles repo.

Very keen to learn what other people do and also what would be technically "correct", if applicable.