Bare systemd --user session support?

[mathstuf]

Is there support for not using a specific session but rather just letting systemd --user handle starting up everything? A proper login manager would be nice to have, but I've never found one that works as well as the plain tty login because they "try too much".

[coastalwhite]

Thank you for this suggestion.

I am trying to understand. Do you want systemd --user just to boot into a terminal environment or do you want it to start a graphical environment as well. I am not very familiar with systemd --user being used as such. Is there maybe some example code from a tty login which performs what you are looking for?

[mathstuf]

I honestly don't know what triggers it (probably logind?), but X, dbus, etc. are all started by user units I've made. As soon as I login to a TTY on first boot, my session starts up according to the units. About the only custom thing for startup outside of unit files is that I have tlock run in my shell's startup so that if X dies or something, it's not just a bare shell available.