Systemd user service not starting automatically

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This has been asked many times in some form or another but none of the advice seems to have helped.

I want to run syndaemon after I login to the GUI, but I always have to start it manually

$ systemctl --user status syndaemon.service
● syndaemon.service - Syndaemon Service
     Loaded: loaded (/home/tastywheat/.config/systemd/user/syndaemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
$ systemctl --user start syndaemon.service
$ systemctl --user status syndaemon.service
● syndaemon.service - Syndaemon Service
     Loaded: loaded (/home/tastywheat/.config/systemd/user/syndaemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2021-04-11 00:33:54 CDT; 3s ago
   Main PID: 5032 (syndaemon)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/syndaemon.service
             └─5032 /usr/bin/syndaemon -i 0.8 -R -t -k

It doesn't appear that there was any attempt to start the service either (it only shows here because I started it manually).

$ grep -ir syndaemon /var/log/syslog
Apr 11 00:33:54 xtrnmntr systemd[1068]: Started Syndaemon Service.

I also followed advice regarding the use of loginctl enable-linger.

$ find /var/lib/systemd/linger/
/var/lib/systemd/linger/
/var/lib/systemd/linger/tastywheat

And I tried an alternative method of modifying logind.conf.

$ grep -ir tastywheat /etc/systemd/logind.conf 
KillExcludeUsers=tastywheat

Also my user-service, in case that's at fault:

$ cat ~/.config/systemd/user/syndaemon.service 
[Unit]
Description=Syndaemon Service
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/syndaemon -i 0.8 -R -t -k
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

I guess I don't mind if I have to move this service into /etc/systemd but I didn't want to have to use sudo every time I tweaked this or some other user service.

Systemd user service not starting automatically

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