Please, check SmartGit.
This option is in its low-level properties.

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And I really do NOT want to add it to SourceGit.

This could be turned off by default, and switched on by editing config file. I will figure out how to do it.

• We have done lots of works to improve the speed to open a repository.

Application launch takes about 3-4 seconds on my Omen HP notebook wih AMD Ryzen 9.
Hiding into system tray and restoring from it takes less than one second.

• SourceGit is just a GUI frontend of git that used to display the current status of repository. There're no background servers started by it.

My PR does not add any background services, it just changes processing of the Closing event in src/Views/Launcher.axaml.cs:

 protected override void OnClosing(WindowClosingEventArgs e)
 {
 var pref = ViewModels.Preference.Instance;
 if (pref.SystemTrayIcon) {
 e.Cancel = true;
 Hide();
 } else {
 (DataContext as ViewModels.Launcher)?.Quit(Width, Height);
 }
 base.OnClosing(e);
 }

• Keeping SourceGit running in background may cause issue like The configured user limit (128) on the number of inotify instances has been reached... #411

So, currently it is not recommended to leave SourceGit running, right?

I know. What I mean is that it's not necessary to keep this app running background

I know. What I mean is that it's not necessary to keep this app running background

But what if I want to keep it running?

For me, personally, the answer is known :)

I believe, I'm not the only one.

I always have running a terminal application and a file manager (Krusader and Far2l), very often I launch several copies of them.

My Linux is configured to launch Yakuake on startup.

You can see Yakuake icon on one of my earlier screenshots.

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Do you want to keep the system file manager running background?

Please, take a look at Double Commander.

It is a file manager with the system tray icon.
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