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 and add:

pavel ALL=(ALL)NOPASSWD:/bin/systemctl

Dependencies (Debian)

sudo apt install 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

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/

Install and test

kpackagetool5 -t Plasma/Applet --install plasma-systemd-1.2.1/plasmoid
kpackagetool5 -t Plasma/Applet --upgrade plasma-systemd-1.2.1/plasmoid 
plasmoidviewer --applet org.kde.systemd-control