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On his blog, David Edmundson writes about a new optional mechanism for starting up the KDE Plasma desktop using systemd. “Another big motivating factor was the ability for customisation. The root of Plasma’s startup is very hardcoded. What if you want to run krunner with a different environment variable set? or have a script run every time plasmashell restarts, or show a UI after kwin is loaded but before plasma shell to perform some user setup? You can edit the code, but that’s not easy and you’re very much on your own.

Systemd provides that level of customisation; both at a distro or a user level out of the box. From our POV for free.”