[eschwartz]

FWIW I quite want calibre to be able to connect to a running server instance, and I hope Kovid eventually gets that working.

In the meantime, I have updated my calibre wrapper script to accommodate the server:

#!/bin/bash

eval $(systemctl --user show calibre-server -q -p ActiveState)

toggle-server() {
    local action=$1

    if [[ $ActiveState = active ]]; then
        systemctl --user $action calibre-server
    fi
}

toggle-server stop

if [ $# -eq 0 ] || [[ "$1" = "--detach" ]]; then
    echo -e "\n\n\nStarting calibre at $(date).\n\n\n" >> "/tmp/calibre-debug-$USER.log" 2>&1
    # FIXME: Once calibre supports running the GUI with a server database, we can stop doing this.
    if [[ $ActiveState = active ]]; then
        echo -e "Pausing the systemd-managed server due to calibre v3 restraints.\n" >> "/tmp/calibre-debug-$USER.log" 2>&1
        echo -e "FIXME: Once calibre supports running the GUI with a server database, we can stop doing this.\n\n\n" >> "/tmp/calibre-debug-$USER.log" 2>&1
    fi
    calibre-debug -g 2>&1 | tee -a "/tmp/calibre-debug-$USER.log"
else
    /usr/bin/calibre "$@"
fi

toggle-server start