Bug 465236

Summary: xsettingsd isn't started in the X11 session
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Peter Eszlari <peter.eszlari>
Component: Startup processAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: kde, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.26.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Peter Eszlari 2023-02-03 16:38:52 UTC
SUMMARY
When I log in to the X11 session, the daemon "xsettingsd" is not running.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. log in to the X11 session 
2. open konsole
3. $ systemctl --user status

OBSERVED RESULT
             ├─plasma-kded.service
             │ ├─1481 /usr/bin/kded5

EXPECTED RESULT
             ├─plasma-kded.service
             │ ├─1481 /usr/bin/kded5
             │ └─1521 /usr/bin/xsettingsd

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Distribution: Kubuntu 23.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0
Qt Version: 5.15.7

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
When I log in to the Wayland session, xsettingsd is running. The same is true, when I log in to the X11 session inside a VM (virt-manager/qemu).
Comment 1 Peter Eszlari 2023-02-19 15:29:06 UTC
I tested this again on openSUSE Tumbleweed with Plasma 5.27.0 and there it works. So this was either fixed in 5.27 or a distribution specific problem.