diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 12eb9f5..b43f4bc 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ authors = ["Lucy <lucy@system76.com>"]
 publish = false
 
 [dependencies]
-color-eyre = "0.6.1"
+async-signals = "0.4"
+color-eyre = "0.6"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
+tokio-util = "0.7"
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 6704a48..658cd7d 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate tracing;
+
+mod process;
+
 use color_eyre::{eyre::WrapErr, Result};
 use tracing::metadata::LevelFilter;
 use tracing_subscriber::{fmt, prelude::*, EnvFilter};
@@ -15,7 +20,9 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
 				.from_env_lossy(),
 		)
 		.try_init()
-		.wrap_err("failed to initialize logger")?;
+		.wrap_err("failed to ianitialize logger")?;
+
+	info!("Starting cosmic-session");
 
 	Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/src/process.rs b/src/process.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc4744f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/process.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
+use std::{
+	future::Future,
+	process::{ExitStatus, Stdio},
+};
+use tokio::{
+	io::{AsyncBufReadExt, BufReader},
+	process::Command,
+};
+use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
+
+pub enum ProcessEvent {
+	Started,
+	Stdout(String),
+	Stderr(String),
+	Ended { status: ExitStatus },
+}
+
+pub struct ProcessHandler<AsyncTask, Task>
+where
+	AsyncTask: Future<Output = ()> + Send,
+	Task: Fn(ProcessEvent) -> AsyncTask + Send + 'static,
+{
+	task: Task,
+	cancellation_token: CancellationToken,
+}
+
+impl<AsyncTask, Task> ProcessHandler<AsyncTask, Task>
+where
+	AsyncTask: Future<Output = ()> + Send,
+	Task: Fn(ProcessEvent) -> AsyncTask + Send + 'static,
+{
+	pub fn new(task: Task, cancellation_token: &CancellationToken) -> Self {
+		Self {
+			task,
+			cancellation_token: cancellation_token.child_token(),
+		}
+	}
+
+	pub fn run(self, executable: impl ToString, args: Vec<String>) {
+		let executable = executable.to_string();
+		tokio::spawn(async move {
+			let mut child = match Command::new(&executable)
+				.args(&args)
+				.stdin(Stdio::null())
+				.stdout(Stdio::piped())
+				.stderr(Stdio::piped())
+				.kill_on_drop(true)
+				.spawn()
+			{
+				Ok(child) => child,
+				Err(error) => {
+					error!(
+						"failed to launch '{} {}': {}",
+						executable,
+						args.join(" "),
+						error
+					);
+					return;
+				}
+			};
+			let mut stdout = BufReader::new(child.stdout.take().unwrap()).lines();
+			let mut stderr = BufReader::new(child.stderr.take().unwrap()).lines();
+			let task = (self.task)(ProcessEvent::Started);
+			task.await;
+			loop {
+				tokio::select! {
+					status = child.wait() => match status {
+						Ok(status) => {
+							info!("'{}' exited with status {}", executable, status);
+							let task = (self.task)(ProcessEvent::Ended { status });
+							task.await;
+							return;
+						}
+						Err(error) => {
+							error!(
+								"failed to wait for '{}' to end: {}",
+								executable,
+								error
+							);
+							return;
+						}
+					},
+					line = stdout.next_line() => match line {
+						Ok(Some(line)) => {
+							let task = (self.task)(ProcessEvent::Stdout(line));
+							task.await;
+						},
+						Ok(None) => (),
+						Err(error) => {
+							warn!(
+								"failed to get stdout line from '{}': {}",
+								executable,
+								error
+							);
+						}
+					},
+					line = stderr.next_line() => match line {
+						Ok(Some(line)) => {
+							let task = (self.task)(ProcessEvent::Stderr(line));
+							task.await;
+						},
+						Ok(None) => (),
+						Err(error) => {
+							warn!(
+								"failed to get stderr line from '{}': {}",
+								executable,
+								error
+							);
+						}
+					},
+					_ = self.cancellation_token.cancelled() => {
+						warn!("exiting '{}': cancelled", executable);
+						return;
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		});
+	}
+}