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Introducing SystemD Pilot, GUI app for managing systemd services (github.com)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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SystemD Pilot is a desktop application for managing systemd services on GNU/linux machines. The app is very lightweight and supports common tasks such as starting and stopping systemd services.

It can also show detailed status for each service.

Features: List services

Filter by running state

Start, Stop, Restart, Enable and Disable services + show status for each service

Create override configuration for any unit file using the edit button

Option for reloading systemd manager configuration (systemctl daemon-reload)

Easy search. Just start typing and the app will find relevant services

Lightweight

Available for download as deb, rpm and AppImage

Integration into GNOME desktop (libadwaita)

Made with love for the FOSS community. Please give it a try and share your thoughts.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I would absolutely use it. In fact creating and editing services would be the primary selling point IMO. It doesn't need to be much "easier" than doing it in the terminal or file explorer, to me the primary benefit would just be the ease of use of creating, loading, and starting a new service all in one place.

I think a generic template would be great.

You could turn the whole thing into a giant GUI settings screen, allowing navigation to an exectuable, after which you could provide some of the most typical options as sliders, number fields, switches, or whatever is suitable. But that would be a large amount of work, and I'm not sure it would simplify things much.

The starting point should just be a text field, but with a link to the service file docs for help/reference.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Brilliant thanks for your feedback and thoughts. Will look into this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

As far as i can tell a full gui for systemd service files would be practically impossible. But a template ui would be sick, maybe something like an app autostart template could look like this:

Program: 

Launch options:

When: early/normal/login/graphical-start

Restart: never/once/always

Just spitballing here though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

And the RestartSomethingInterval=0 option so systemd keeps restarting the program like an obedient machine it should be, not give up because it's tired