Stop the session you started, so the next one can begin

Logging out of plain Hyprland left the desktop running. autostart.lua starts
about ten user units, none of them children of the compositor, and the shutdown
handler that was meant to stop them stopped hyprland-session.target -- a unit
Fedora does not ship. systemctl says 'Unit not found', the handler reports
nothing, and hyprpaper, hypridle, vicinae and the polkit agent keep running
after logout. Each of them Requires=graphical-session.target, so that target
stayed active with no session behind it.

The symptom was not a broken Hyprland. Both uwsm and gnome-session refuse to
start into a session that is already running, so 'Hyprland (uwsm-managed)' and
GNOME both bounced back to the login screen, and plain Hyprland -- which makes
no such check -- was the only one that worked. The session that looked healthy
was the one leaving the mess, and it was the one Panama tells people not to use.

Now stops graphical-session.target, which every one of those units is PartOf,
so a unit added to the start handler later cannot be forgotten here.

panama-crash-watch had the same leak and no PartOf at all: a journal follower
per login, and a 'once per program per session' dedup that had quietly become
once per boot.
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Gabriel Brown
2026-08-23 13:55:47 -04:00
parent c0eee076b4
commit e723fabed3
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@@ -91,8 +91,28 @@ hl.on("hyprland.start", function()
-- session on its own. Starting it here as well would give you two trays.
end)
-- Tear down what the start handler brought up.
--
-- This stopped `hyprland-session.target`, which does not exist on Fedora --
-- systemctl reports "Unit not found" and the handler achieves nothing. The
-- units started above are not children of the compositor, so nothing else
-- stopped them either: hyprpaper, hypridle, vicinae and the polkit agent kept
-- running after logout, and each one Requires=graphical-session.target, so
-- that target stayed active with no session behind it.
--
-- The next login then failed. Both uwsm and gnome-session refuse to start into
-- a session that is already running ("A compositor or graphical-session*
-- target is already active!"), so "Hyprland (uwsm-managed)" and GNOME both
-- bounced straight back to the login screen while plain Hyprland -- which
-- makes no such check -- kept working. The desktop appeared to be the only one
-- that functioned, when it was the one leaving the mess.
--
-- Stopping graphical-session.target is enough on its own: every unit above is
-- PartOf= it, so they come down with it, and it carries StopWhenUnneeded=yes.
-- It is stopped rather than the units listed individually so that a unit added
-- to the start handler later cannot be forgotten here.
hl.on("hyprland.shutdown", function()
hl.exec_cmd("systemctl --user stop hyprland-session.target")
hl.exec_cmd("systemctl --user stop graphical-session.target")
end)
return true