fix: make an existing classroom converge into the Plasma appliance

A real room upgraded to 0.1.45 and came up as stock Debian Plasma with
the old Waybar across the top, mako still catching notifications, and a
lock screen on an account that has no password.

The cause was one line, and it was in the lab: the harness handed the
session under test XDG_CONFIG_DIRS by hand, so every result it had ever
produced was a result about a machine somebody had already configured.
On a machine SDDM starts the session through PAM, PAM does not read
/etc/environment.d, and Debian's own plasma-workspace env.sh then set the
variable from scratch — so the classroom's settings directory was not in
the cascade at all. No layout, no lock policy, no Kiosk restrictions.

The settings now arrive the way Plasma delivers them, through a file in
/etc/xdg/plasma-workspace/env. Around that: the look and feel is
immutable on its own key so a stale profile cannot answer for it; the
palette is composed into the package, because naming a colour scheme does
not produce one and the dark bar had been coming from a technician's
hand; the desktop reset converges another desktop's appearance state and
keeps the room's own; and classroom-migrate stops, deactivates and masks
the old shell, including the D-Bus activation that brought mako back
while the panel was down — found only by killing the panel on a migrated
machine.

device.conf loses COMPOSITOR and comes off the hyprland channel, which
would otherwise have handed the room the experiment back.

The lab stops flattering the package: it restarts the machine, lets SDDM
actually autologin, and asks a fresh install and a machine upgraded from
the Hyprland package the same sixty questions. Both answer identically,
twice, and the panel still comes back from eight SIGKILLs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
ekklesia
2026-09-10 23:06:56 -05:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 6050144e5d
commit 926668dc9b
29 changed files with 1588 additions and 40 deletions
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@@ -206,17 +206,32 @@ install -Dm644 \
# Not /etc/xdg: plasma-workspace already owns files by these names there.
# The classroom's directory goes in front of it in XDG_CONFIG_DIRS instead.
for setting in kdeglobals kwinrc kwinrulesrc kscreenlockerrc ksmserverrc \
for setting in kwinrc kwinrulesrc kscreenlockerrc ksmserverrc \
krunnerrc plasmanotifyrc powermanagementprofilesrc; do
install -Dm644 \
"$ROOT/config/plasma/xdg/${setting}" \
"$STAGE/etc/ekklesia-classroom/xdg/${setting}"
done
# kdeglobals is composed rather than copied: the session policy plus the
# dark palette itself. Naming a colour scheme does not produce one, and a
# room whose user profile had never had a scheme applied came up light.
install -d "$STAGE/etc/ekklesia-classroom/xdg"
"$ROOT/tools/build-kdeglobals" > "$STAGE/etc/ekklesia-classroom/xdg/kdeglobals"
chmod 0644 "$STAGE/etc/ekklesia-classroom/xdg/kdeglobals"
install -Dm644 \
"$ROOT/config/environment/90-ekklesia-classroom.conf" \
"$STAGE/etc/environment.d/90-ekklesia-classroom.conf"
# The one that actually reaches a session started by a display manager.
# startplasma sources this directory; PAM does not read environment.d, so
# without this file none of the settings above are in the cascade at all
# and the room comes up as stock Plasma. Measured, on a real machine.
install -Dm644 \
"$ROOT/config/plasma/env/zz-ekklesia-classroom.sh" \
"$STAGE/etc/xdg/plasma-workspace/env/zz-ekklesia-classroom.sh"
# The power button does nothing. Two layers, because while a session is
# running PowerDevil holds logind's inhibitor and would overrule it.
install -Dm644 \
@@ -260,6 +275,14 @@ install -Dm644 \
"$ROOT/config/plasma/solid/ekklesia-dvd.desktop" \
"$STAGE/usr/share/solid/actions/ekklesia-dvd.desktop"
# Shadows the old notification daemon's D-Bus activation. Deactivating its
# systemd unit is not enough: D-Bus starts it on demand from a file
# mako-notifier owns, and the crash-recovery test on a migrated machine
# caught it doing exactly that while the panel was down.
install -Dm644 \
"$ROOT/config/dbus/fr.emersion.mako.service" \
"$STAGE/usr/local/share/dbus-1/services/fr.emersion.mako.service"
# Two marks the classroom draws itself, because nothing in Breeze says
# either thing: a lesson, and fetching a child's grown-up.
for icon in ekklesia-wonderink ekklesia-parent-call; do
@@ -310,6 +333,12 @@ install -Dm755 \
"$ROOT/scripts/classroom-theme" \
"$STAGE/usr/local/bin/classroom-theme"
# Converges a machine that used to run something else. Called from
# postinst on every install, and by hand by a technician.
install -Dm755 \
"$ROOT/scripts/classroom-migrate" \
"$STAGE/usr/local/bin/classroom-migrate"
install -Dm644 \
"$ROOT/lib/classroom_audio.py" \
"$STAGE/usr/local/lib/ekklesia-classroom/classroom_audio.py"