Flammie's settings and etc data
Systemd is a system daemon that handles services / stuff that runs on background, it was pushed to linux ecosystem somewhere in 2010’s I think to replace all other initscripts. It’s a rather debated thing, since it wasn’t really an improvement from simpler systems with just shell scripts to launch stuff. Some of the beloved notorious features include not being able to shutdown your computer if you lose or change wlan connection (because shutting down tries to connect to localhost over net and fails when systemd screwed up dns or something IDK).
In anyways, reason why I have systemd in dotfiles is because you can have user services running too. I use this to have a background script checking and notifying of battery status, since this feature does not come easily with i3. It’d be nice to actually have like a udev trigger for this warning instead of polling the battery status, but it seems eudev ignores all udev scripts so this is the best I came up with:
In: .config/systemd/user/battery-monitor.service:
[Unit]
Description=Patterimonitori
[Service]
Type=simple
Environment=DISPLAY=:0
Environment=XAUTHORITY=%h/.Xauthority
ExecStart=/bin/bash %h/bin/battery-monitor.bash
Restart=always
RestartSec=66
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
so daemons like this can be run by user with systemctl --user enable
battery-monitor etc. The battery monitor is a simple script that greps for
battery percentage and notify-sends user when necessary (hence the
Environment).