Services Systemd

About

Services Systemd is a Gnome Shell Extension which allows to start and stop systemd services via a menu in the status area in the main menu panel. As there exists all a lot of irrelevant systemd services - in the sense of being displayed in this menu - the user can preselect which services should be shown in the preference dialog of the extension.

Install

Gnome Shell Extensions Page

The easiest way to install this extension is via the official Gnome Shell Extensions resource page: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1034/services-systemd/

Arch Linux

For Arch Linux the AUR package gnome-shell-extension-services-systemd-git is provided.

Authorization

Done via a password prompt from the command pkexec of the polkit package. This command usually pops up a graphical password prompt.

Without Password Prompt

Using pkexec (default)

In the recent versions of this extension the authorization is done by pkexec (before via gksu). Therefore if you would like to be able to start systemd services without getting prompted for a password, you will have to configure a polkit policy. The policy file org.freedesktop.policykit.pkexec.systemctl.policy would allow the execution of systemctl [start|stop] without a password confirmation. Simple copy the file in your polkit policy folder (usually: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions).

Using systemctl

You can also choose to use systemctl natively and bypass a password prompt.

To do this, add the policy file 10-service_status.rules to /etc/polkit-1/rules.d.

Feel free to change the wheel group noted in the file to any other group that you see fit.

Future

Planned additional functionality:

• Separators/Groups
• Adjustable systemd folders
• Other services

Credits

Some parts have been taken from the gnome extension Services.

License

GPLv3