Yabai: launchd.plist differences between default yabai file and nix-darwin

[0rphee]

The launchd.plist file has several differences between the default yabai-generated file and the one created by nix-darwin. This makes debugging issues difficult, specially due to the lack of the StandardOutPath and StandardErrorPath keys.

With yabai-v7.1.5: com.koekeishiya.yabai.plist

Details

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.koekeishiya.yabai</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/run/current-system/sw/bin/yabai</string>
    </array>
    <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
    <dict>
        <key>PATH</key>
        <string>......</string>
    </dict>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <dict>
        <key>SuccessfulExit</key>
 	     <false/>
 	     <key>Crashed</key>
 	     <true/>
    </dict>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/yabai_user.out.log</string>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/yabai_user.err.log</string>
    <key>ProcessType</key>
    <string>Interactive</string>
    <key>Nice</key>
    <integer>-20</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

With nix-darwin:

Details

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
	<dict>
		<key>PATH</key>
		<string>/nix/store/i0aw7glc5kagrx01gxbv3dnd0v2p13yx-yabai-7.1.5/bin:$HOME/.nix-profile/bin:/run/current-system/sw/bin:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin</string>
	</dict>
	<key>KeepAlive</key>
	<true/>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>org.nixos.yabai</string>
	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
	<array>
		<string>/nix/store/i0aw7glc5kagrx01gxbv3dnd0v2p13yx-yabai-7.1.5/bin/yabai</string>
	</array>
	<key>RunAtLoad</key>
	<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

[Samasaur1]

#1231 will address this issue