The instructions regarding the config file are too sparse, and it doesn't help that I guess rather than look at the code.

By default maebble looks for a parameter "--config_file" followed by the full path to the config file. If no config parameter is provided the first unicode error will be logged.

Then maebble looks for the config file "/home/user/.config/maebble/maebble.cfg". The problem is that if that file isn't found, or something goes bad when reading it, there is no log.

To get something in the log you need to use parameters "--config_file maebble.cfg" or "--config_file /home/user/.config/maebble/maebble.cfg".

Apologies or the confusion. I added the parameter for the config file without much though to solve my problem with multiple devices. I'll try to change it to something better in the next update.