Ideally have a max number of characters/pixels before it automatically collapses the rest by default

To have it automatically restart on failure, you can add the following to your systemd unit:

[Service]
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s

See this blog post for more information.

But to find the root cause of why it’s failing, you can run systemctl status <service> when it fails to get the most recent logs and hopefully an error as to why it failed.