QRunSvMgr

Qt6 Running Services Manager

System services manager

qrunsvmgr is a lightweight graphical interface for managing system services. It lets you easily start, stop, and monitor services.

Features

• Start, stop, and restart services
• Enable and disable services
• View service logs
• Live status monitoring
• Search and filter services
• Manage user services
• Multiple backends

Backends

qrunsvmgr was originally built exclusively for runit. Thanks to its IPC design, the GUI works with any backend that speaks the same protocol.

• Runit
• Dinit (requires libdinitctl)
• Systemd (requires dbus)

[!NOTE] This program does not rely on the system sv command for runit. It includes its own implementation for managing runit services directly.

[!NOTE] Have you written a backend? Let me know by opening an issue that links to your repository, or submit a PR if you’d like it to become part of qrunsvmgr.

Building

git clone https://codeberg.org/itszariep/qrunsvmgr
cd qrunsvmgr

cmake -B build
cmake --build build

This produces the following binaries:

• qrunsvmgr: a launcher script that detects your init system and starts the matching helper
• qrunsvmgr-qt: the Qt GUI (requires a helper to work)
• qrunsvmgr-helper-runit, qrunsvmgr-helper-dinit, qrunsvmgr-helper-systemd: the backend helpers (depending on which are enabled)

Enabling or disabling backends

Pass these options to cmake when configuring:

cmake -B build -DBUILD_DINIT_HELPER=ON -DBUILD_RUNIT_HELPER=ON

Setup

Runit

Configure the runit service paths to match your system. See the Runit paths wiki page for details.

Systemd

A running dbus session is required for the program to work properly.