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Another might be adapting supervise-daemon or runits runsvdir, or running dinit in a user-session context.

Thanks for the idea, steve_v! I just set up a runit-based solution. It seems yours has a more sophisticated lifecycle integration with the session/login manager (I'm not so clued up on that stuff) but here's what I have done anyhow:

The runit scripts may be found at runit-desktop - they can be unpacked to ~/.xusersvc. Here's a sample:

#!/usr/bin/sh

SVDIR=$(dirname ${PWD}) sv start pipewire || exit 1

set -e
exec 2>&1
echo "Starting ${PWD##*/}..."

exec /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse

Then I have an XFCE Application autostart entry (cat "~/.config/autostart/User runsvdir.desktop":

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=0.9.4
Type=Application
Name=User runsvdir
Comment=Start user runit services
Exec=runsvdir .xusersvc
OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
RunHook=0
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false

and we are away (sv status .xusersvc/*)!

run: .xusersvc/pipewire: (pid 19758) 1035s; run: log: (pid 19757) 1035s
run: .xusersvc/pipewire-pulse: (pid 19778) 1035s; run: log: (pid 19769) 1035s
run: .xusersvc/wireplumber: (pid 19771) 1035s; run: log: (pid 19768) 1035s

With log files sitting in ~/.xuserlog/*/current:

024-04-19_22:58:50.32626 ok: run: pipewire: (pid 19758) 0s
2024-04-19_22:58:50.32632 Starting pipewire-pulse...
2024-04-19_22:58:51.58468 [W][06850.910390] default      | [   snap-policy.c:   71 pw_snap_get_audio_permissions()] snap_get_audio_permissions: kernel lacks 'fine grained unix mediation'; snap audio permissions won't be honored.

Supervision seems to end satisfactorily on session exit although I did also try a logout hook that ran pkill -HUP on the user's runsvdir but I'm not sure what it gained.

Fortunately it seems the services create their own sockets when systemd activation is absent and we don't need to worry about the various .socket units.

(Also, my first post although I have used the OS for some years - thank you Devuan people!)

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