write to log file

docs/config-docs.md

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Configured in XML and themed using CSS, it is easy to customize and provides all
 	- [Something isn't styled correctly!](#something-isnt-styled-correctly)
 
 
-## How to install Eww 
+## How to install Eww
 
 ### Prerequisites
 
@@ -112,12 +112,12 @@ You can then reference it in your widgets by doing:
 
 To change the value of the variable, and thus change the UI, you can run `eww update banana "I like apples"`
 
-#### The `<script-var>` tag 
+#### The `<script-var>` tag
 
 Allows you to create a script that eww runs.
 Useful for creating volume sliders or anything similar.
 
-Example: 
+Example:
 ```xml
 <variables>
 	<script-var name="date" interval="5s">
@@ -135,12 +135,12 @@ and then reference it by doing:
 
 The `interval="5s"` part says how long time it should take before Eww runs the command again.
 Here are the available times you can set:
-| Shortened | Full name | 
+| Shortened | Full name |
-| :------------- | :----------:|  
+| :------------- | :----------:|
-| ms | Miliseconds |  
+| ms | Miliseconds |
 | s | Seconds |
-| m | Minutes |  
+| m | Minutes |
-| h | Hours | 
+| h | Hours |
 
 #### Tail
 If you don't want a set interval and instead want it to tail (run the script when it detects a change is present) you can simply remove the `interval="5s"` so it becomes:
@@ -189,8 +189,8 @@ This part:
 		</box>
 	</def>
 ```
-Is the custom widget. As we can see by the 
+Is the custom widget. As we can see by the
-```xml 
+```xml
 <def name="clock">
 ```
 the widget is called `clock.`Or referenced `<clock>`
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ So if we look at:
 		</box>
 	</def>
 ```
-we can see that we assign `{{my_time}}` to be `{{date}}` and if we look at 
+we can see that we assign `{{my_time}}` to be `{{date}}` and if we look at
 ```xml
 	<script-var name="date">
 		date
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ we will see that eww will run `<def name="main">` and not `<def name="clock">`.
 
 ### Widgets made in Eww
 
-![two](two.png) ![one](one.png)
+![two](images/two.png) ![one](images/one.png)
 
 
 ## GTK

src/main.rs

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use std::{
     collections::HashMap,
     io::{Read, Write},
-    os::unix::net,
+    os::unix::{io::AsRawFd, net},
     path::{Path, PathBuf},
 };
 use structopt::StructOpt;
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ lazy_static::lazy_static! {
         .map(|v| PathBuf::from(v))
         .unwrap_or_else(|_| PathBuf::from(std::env::var("HOME").unwrap()).join(".config"))
         .join("eww");
+
+    static ref LOG_FILE: std::path::PathBuf = std::env::var("XDG_CACHE_HOME")
+        .map(|v| PathBuf::from(v))
+        .unwrap_or_else(|_| PathBuf::from(std::env::var("HOME").unwrap()).join(".cache"))
+        .join("eww.log");
 }
 
 fn main() {
@@ -257,40 +262,40 @@ fn run_filewatch_thread<P: AsRef<Path>>(
     Ok(hotwatch)
 }
 
-/// detach the process from the terminal, also closing stdout and redirecting
+/// detach the process from the terminal, also redirecting stdout and stderr to
-/// stderr into /dev/null
+/// LOG_FILE
 fn do_detach() {
     // detach from terminal
     let pid = unsafe { libc::fork() };
-    if dbg!(pid) < 0 {
+    if pid < 0 {
         panic!("Phailed to Phork: {}", std::io::Error::last_os_error());
     }
     if pid != 0 {
         std::process::exit(0);
     }
 
-    // close stdout to not spam output
+    let file = std::fs::OpenOptions::new()
-    if unsafe { libc::isatty(1) } != 0 {
+        .create(true)
-        unsafe {
+        .append(true)
-            libc::close(1);
+        .open(&*LOG_FILE)
-        }
+        .expect(&format!(
-    }
+            "Error opening log file ({}), for writing",
-    // close stderr to not spam output
+            &*LOG_FILE.to_string_lossy()
-    if unsafe { libc::isatty(2) } != 0 {
+        ));
-        unsafe {
+    let fd = file.as_raw_fd();
-            let fd = libc::open(std::ffi::CString::new("/dev/null").unwrap().as_ptr(), libc::O_RDWR);
+
-            if fd < 0 {
+    unsafe {
-                panic!("Phailed to open /dev/null?!: {}", std::io::Error::last_os_error());
+        if libc::isatty(1) != 0 {
-            } else {
+            if libc::dup2(fd, libc::STDOUT_FILENO) < 0 {
-                if libc::dup2(fd, libc::STDERR_FILENO) < 0 {
+                panic!("Phailed to dup stdout to log file: {:?}", std::io::Error::last_os_error());
-                    panic!(
-                        "Phailed to dup stderr phd to /dev/null: {:?}",
-                        std::io::Error::last_os_error()
-                    );
-                }
-                libc::close(fd);
             }
         }
+        if libc::isatty(2) != 0 {
+            if libc::dup2(fd, libc::STDERR_FILENO) < 0 {
+                panic!("Phailed to dup stderr to log file: {:?}", std::io::Error::last_os_error());
+            }
+        }
+        libc::close(fd);
     }
 }