dotfiles/services/.config/systemd/user/dropdown-terminal.service
Marty Oehme 34fca7670f
services: Lower restart time to 2 seconds
Main issue the restart delay fixes is that services don't wait for X to
be ready on startup (which is bad if the application being started
requires X being ready to actually work.)

I have still not found a way to work around waiting for X being ready
other then the ugly delay hack (for systemd --user modules at least).

However, the delay can be --- in most cases --- smaller than 5 seconds.
All my machines start reasonably fast and have X up and running from
pressing login to staring at the wallpaper in a couple seconds at most.

If services don't start correctly and the error is X not being ready,
increase the startup delay once again.
2020-09-12 17:37:43 +02:00

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[Unit]
Description=Alacritty window hidden on i3 scratchpad
[Service]
Type=simple
# workaround to allow relative executable invocation (i.e. current users' home dir)
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c 'alacritty --title "dropdown-terminal" --class Alacritty,scratchpad'
Restart=always
RestartSec=2
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target