Plasma Systemd Control

This is a simple plasma applet for KDE Plasma 5 to control systemd services. It is not designed to be a complete user interface for systemd, but it provides an convenient way to start and stop selected services.

Supported Features

• start service (sudo systemctl start SERVICE)
• stop service (sudo systemctl stop SERVICE)
• updates automatically if status changed externally
• system units and user units (--user)

Prerequisite

To work properly, you must be able to run sudo systemctl without password. Usually you can achieve this be editing /etc/sudoers with visudo.

Installation

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kf5-config --prefix` -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=lib -DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=ON ../
make
make install

For Arch Linux there is a package available via AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plasma5-applets-systemd/

Dependencies (Debian)

• cmake
• linux-libc-dev
• build-essential
• extra-cmake-modules
• libkf5config-dev
• libkf5plasma-dev
• qt5-default
• qtdeclarative5-dev

Dependencies (openSUSE)

• cmake
• extra-cmake-modules
• linux-glibc-devel
• libqt5-qtbase-devel