Post #3508864
2026-07-01 10:12 UTC
Sometime since 2012, a new utility has become part of Linux. It's called systemd. You may have heard of it.
Installing a daemon means working with systemd. I've never really used it before, though if you need SysV init scripts, I'm your man. The SysV init system was apparently too complicated and opaque, a nest of little shell scripts and symlinks. So systemd simplifies all that.
Many pages of angry text have been written about systemd; I'm not going there. I'm just sad.
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#systemd
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@kbob@chaos.social 2026-07-01 10:26
Anyway, the information on the Internet was uniformly wrong about how to integrate VNC into systemd. Wrong in many interesting ways. I delved into the systemd docs and finally got Xvnc plumbed into it, and then the problem was that VNC didn't have any X clients to run. So I looked up which display manager Mint uses. It's lightdm. (Question for the peanut gallery: does Ubuntu use lightdm? Canonical apparently wrote it, but Ubuntu might have migrated away.) 8/N #LinuxMint #VNC #LightDM