Better eww

packages/eww-ensure-daemon/default.nix

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+{ lib, writeShellScriptBin, eww, systemd }:
+
+# `eww open` silently becomes a NEW daemon when it can't reach the socket,
+# rebinding the same socket path and orphaning the previous daemon. The old
+# daemon keeps rendering its layer-shell surfaces but no longer answers any
+# `eww close` — that is the "zombie panel I can't close" / "bar opened twice".
+# Every open path must go through here first, so the socket is always live
+# before a client touches it and no client ever self-daemonizes.
+writeShellScriptBin "eww-ensure-daemon" ''
+  ${lib.getExe eww} ping >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
+
+  ${systemd}/bin/systemctl --user start eww.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+
+  for _ in $(seq 1 100); do
+    ${lib.getExe eww} ping >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
+    sleep 0.1
+  done
+  exit 1
+''