Even if WAYLAND_DISPLAY / XDG_RUNTIME_DIR are defined, if we can't
find the corresponding socket, we fallback to the path used when they
are not defined.
The default foot output looks like this, in Debian testing "bookworm"
at the time of writing:
anarcat@angela:pubpaste$ foot true
info: main.c:421: version: 1.13.1 +pgo +ime +graphemes -assertions
info: main.c:428: arch: Linux x86_64/64-bit
info: main.c:440: locale: fr_CA.UTF-8
info: config.c:3003: loading configuration from /home/anarcat/.config/foot/foot.ini
info: fcft.c:338: fcft: 3.1.5 +graphemes -runs +svg(nanosvg) -assertions
info: fcft.c:377: fontconfig: 2.13.1, freetype: 2.12.1, harfbuzz: 5.2.0
info: fcft.c:838: /home/anarcat/.local/share/fonts/Fira-4.202/otf/FiraMono-Regular.otf: size=8.00pt/8px, dpi=75.00
info: wayland.c:1353: eDP-1: 2256x1504+0x0@60Hz 0x095F 13.32" scale=2 PPI=205x214 (physical) PPI=136x143 (logical), DPI=271.31
info: wayland.c:1509: requesting SSD decorations
info: fcft.c:838: /home/anarcat/.local/share/fonts/Fira-4.202/otf/FiraMono-Bold.otf: size=24.00pt/32px, dpi=96.00
info: fcft.c:838: /home/anarcat/.local/share/fonts/Fira-4.202/otf/FiraMono-Regular.otf: size=24.00pt/32px, dpi=96.00
info: fcft.c:838: /home/anarcat/.local/share/fonts/Fira-4.202/otf/FiraMono-Bold.otf: size=24.00pt/32px, dpi=96.00
info: fcft.c:838: /home/anarcat/.local/share/fonts/Fira-4.202/otf/FiraMono-Regular.otf: size=24.00pt/32px, dpi=96.00
info: terminal.c:700: cell width=19, height=39
info: terminal.c:588: using 16 rendering threads
info: wayland.c:859: using SSD decorations
info: main.c:680: goodbye
anarcat@angela:pubpaste$
That's 17 lines of output that are *mostly* useless for most use
cases. I might understand having this output during the project's
startup, when it's helpful for diagnostics, but now Foot just mostly
works everywhere, and I've never had a use for any of that stuff in
the (arguably short) time I've been using Foot so far.
And if I do, there's the `--log-level` commandline option to tweak
this. At first, I looked at tweaking the log level through the config
file. But as explained in this issue:
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/1142
... there's a chicken and egg problem there that makes it hard to
implement and possibly confusing for users as well.
There's also the possibility for users to change the shortcut with
which they start foot, for example a `.desktop` file so that menu
systems that support those start foot properly. But that only works in
that environment, and not through the so many things that will just
call `foot` and hope it will do the right thing.
In my case, I have `foot` hardcoded in a lot of places now, between
sway and waybar, and this is only going to grow. Others have suggested
adding the flag to a $TERMINAL global variable, but that won't help
.desktop users.
So, instead of playing whack-a-mole with the log levels, just make it
so that, by default, foot is silent. This is actually one of the
[basics of UNIX philosophy][1]:
> Rule of Silence: When a program has nothing surprising to say, it
> should say nothing.
And yes, I am aware I am severely violating that principle by writing
a way too long commit log for a one-line patch, but there you go, I
figured it was good to document the why of this properly.
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20031102053334/http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html
If $PWD is set, and its resolved path matches the *actual* working
directory, use $PWD for cwd when instantiating the terminal.
This makes a difference when $PWD refers to a symlink; before this
patch, we’d instantiate the terminal in the *resolved* path. Now it’ll
use the symlink instead.
When this option is used, the child process in the new terminal
instance will inherit its environment from the footclient process,
instead of the foot server’s.
Implemented by sending (yet another) dynamic string list as part of
the client -> server setup packet. When the new option is *not* used,
the setup packet is now 2 bytes larger than before.
On the server side, the slave process now uses execvpe() instead of
execvp(). There’s plumbing to propagate a new ‘envp’ argument from
term_init() all the way down to slave_exec(). If ‘envp’ is NULL, we
use ‘environ’ instead (thus matching the old behavior of execvp()).
Closes#1004
Not doing so before calling sigaction(3) is "undefined" according to
POSIX[1]:
> Applications shall call either sigemptyset() or sigfillset() at least
> once for each object of type sigset_t prior to any other use of that
> object. If such an object is not initialized in this way, but is
> nonetheless supplied as an argument to any of pthread_sigmask(),
> sigaction(), sigaddset(), sigdelset(), sigismember(), sigpending(),
> sigprocmask(), sigsuspend(), sigtimedwait(), sigwait(), or
> sigwaitinfo(), the results are undefined.
The use of designated initializers means that sa_mask members were
still being initialized, but sigset_t is an opaque type and implicit
initialization doesn't necessarily produce the same results as using
sigemptyset(3) (although it typically does on most implementations).
[1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/sigaddset.html
Our getopt_long() based argument parser would (correctly) break out of
the while loop immediately. However, we would then proceed and
decrement ‘argc’ by 1, resulting in it being -1.
This was then passed to the terminal constructor, which passed it on
to the client application fork+exec logic. That finally resulted in an
exec(3) failure:
err: slave.c:339: SHELL=/bin/zsh: failed to execute: No such file or directory
err: fdm.c:215: no such FD: 7
info: main.c:604: goodbye
This is an application of the xdg activation protocol that will allow
compositors to associate new foot toplevels with the command that
launched them.
footclient receives an activation token from the launcher which the
compositor can use to track application startup. It passes the token
to the foot server, which then activates the new window with the token
to complete the startup sequence.
MSG_NOSIGNAL Requests not to send the SIGPIPE signal if an attempt
to send is made on a stream-oriented socket that is
no longer connected. The [EPIPE] error shall still be
returned.
FOOT_DEFAULT_TERM is a string literal passed as a -D argument to
the compiler, so it can just be concatenated with the other string
literals, instead of being formatted with printf().
As of 2021-07-31, ncurses ships its own version of foot’s terminfo.
Since:
* It doesn’t have the non-standard Sync,Tc,setrgbf,setrgbb
capabilities.
* It doesn’t set hs,fsl,dsl (statusbar).
* We want to be able to update our termminfo without waiting for an
ncurses release.
* Foot should be installable and usable on Linux systems that doesn’t
have the latest ncurses.
we still want to ship our own version. We can however not install it
to the default terminfo location (e.g. /usr/share/terminfo), since it
will collide with the ncurses provided files.
Our options are to either rename our terminfo to something else, or to
keep the name, but install our terminfo files somewhere else.
The first option would be the easy one. However, I think it makes
sense to use the same name. For example, a user that SSH’s into a
remote system that does *not* have our own version installed,
but *does* have the ncurses one, will gracefully fall back to that
one, which is better than manually having to set
e.g. TERM=xterm-256color.
Now, if we want to use the same name, we need to install it somewhere
else. But where? And how do we ensure our version is preferred over
the ncurses one?
I opted to $datadir/foot/terminfo (e.g. /usr/share/foot/terminfo) by
default. It makes it namespaced to foot (i.e. we’re not introducing a
new “standard” terminfo location), thus guaranteeing it wont collide
with ncurses.
To enable applications to find it, we export TERMINFO_DIRS. This is a
list of *additional* directories to search for terminfo files. If it’s
already defined, we *append* to it.
The nice thing with this is, if there’s no terminfo in that
location (e.g. when you SSH into a remote), the default terminfo
location is *also* searched. But only *after* having searched through
TERMINFO_DIRS.
In short: our version is preferred, but the ncurses one (or an older
version of our terminfo package!) will be used if ours cannot be
found.
To enable packagers full control over the new behavior, the existing
meson command line options have been modified, and a new option added:
-Dterminfo=disabled|enabled|auto: *build* and *install* the terminfo
files.
-Dcustom-terminfo-install-location=<path>: *where* the terminfo files
are expected to be found.
This *needs* to be set *even* if -Dterminfo=disabled. For example, if
the packaging script builds and packages the terminfo files separate
from the regular foot build. The path is *relative to $prefix*, and
defaults to $datadir/foot/terminfo.
This is the value that will be appended to TERMINFO_DIRS. Note that
you can set it to ‘no’, in which case foot will *not* set/modify
TERMINFO_DIRS. Only do this if you don’t intend to package foot’s
terminfo files at all (i.e. you plan on using the ncurses ones only).
-Ddefault-terminfo=foot. Allows overriding the default TERM
value. This should only be changed if the target platform doesn’t
support terminfo files.
Closes#671
This means that logging will be completely disabled until log_init()
has been called, which is useful to prevent log spam when running
UNITTEST{} blocks in debug builds.
Note that this doesn't change the default log level at runtime, which
was already being set to LOG_CLASS_INFO in main.c and client.c.
The new log level is also exposed to the command-line interface as
`--log-level=none`, which allows disabling logging entirely.
We now track override data (length + malloc:ed string) in a struct,
and push this struct to our overrides linked list.
There’s a new function, push_override() that takes a string,
calculates its length, strdup() it and pushes it to the linked
list. This function also length-checks the string, to ensure we don’t
overflow.
This way, we don’t have to loop the overrides list twice; once when
calculating the total length of all overrides, and once when sending
the overrides to the server.
Now, we can update the total length as we add overrides (i.e while
parsing the command line, instead of afterwards).
This means we only have to loop the list once, and that’s when sending
it. This also means there’s no longer any need to malloc an array
holding the lengths of each override.
Send a generic “overrides” list to the server, containing options in
text, on the format “section.key=value”.
This reduces the size of the base client/server protocol packet, as
well as opens up for a generic -o,--override command line option (not
yet implemented).
* foot exits with -26/230
* footclient exits with -36/220
This is to give each application a range of exit codes. Currently
unused, but we may want to change this in the future.
Normally, foot and footclient uses the exit code from the client
application (i.e. the shell).
However, foot (or footclient) itself may fail to run; if run outside
of a Wayland session, or no fonts are installed, or the client
application/shell cannot be found (“foot lsdjfldsjf”) etc.
Up until now, there has been no way to differentiate these kind of
failures from the client application exiting with code 1.
This patch changes foot’s failure exit code to -27/229, and
footclient’s to -28/228. Note that footclient will exit with foot’s
-27/229 if footclient ran successfully, but the foot server failed to
instantiate a new window.
Closes#466.
Initially, these options *did not* have short options. Then, in
e813883367, the short options were added
to footclient’s getopt_long() call.
This was in a sense incorrect. But instead of reverting it, the short
options were made official in
8eaa195990, by adding the short options
to foot, documenting them in the man pages, and adding them to the
shell completions.
Though the commit message of 8eaa195990
says the options have now been included in usage(), they were in
fact *not* added to usage.
This patch does just that.
This fixes an out-of-range comparison in 32-bit builds:
client.c:289:19: error: result of comparison of constant 4294967296 with expression of type 'size_t' (aka 'unsigned int') is always false [-Werror,-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
if (total_len >= 1llu << (8 * sizeof(uint32_t)) ||
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