feat: take the last of sway out of the classroom

The DVD player was the only thing still speaking a compositor the room
no longer runs. It asked sway's tree whether VLC's window had really
gone fullscreen, because VLC reports playing while its window is still
the black startup one the loading cover exists to hide.

VLC's own status was measured as a replacement and is not one: it
reports fullscreen true in the same 250ms poll as playing, because the
flag is the option it was started with and not a report about its
window. So the cover is held for a floor and capped by the deadline that
was already there, and the compositor is not asked anything.

Focus-or-launch went the same way. The session already takes an
exclusive lock, so a second one cannot start, and bringing an existing
one to the front is the panel's job.

classroom-window, classroom_sway and classroom_chrome are gone with it —
the last of them was reachable from nothing at all.

DVD also moves out of the status row, where it sat beside the clock as
though a disc were a machine reading. It is an application: it is in the
row with Wonder Ink and the browser, and classroom-provision removes it
from the layout on a machine with no optical drive, which retires
DVD_ENABLED. A computer that moves between rooms takes its drive with
it; nobody remembers to edit a file when it does.

The panel is rebuilt from the package at every login now. Plasma keeps
whatever panel it first built, so an update could change the bar in the
package and never change it in a room — measured, with an icon that
outlived the file it came from. Editing the live panel configuration was
tried instead and destroyed the panel, because the shell owns that file.
Removing it before the shell starts is safe and makes the desktop
stateless.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
ekklesia
2026-09-10 13:00:50 -05:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 18cf0249dd
commit d2d30d6b0c
25 changed files with 402 additions and 737 deletions
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@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ sys.path.insert(
import classroom_optical as optical # noqa: E402
from classroom_vlc import PLAYER # noqa: E402
WINDOW_TOOL = "/usr/local/bin/classroom-window"
SESSION_TOOL = "/usr/local/bin/classroom-dvd-session"
@@ -44,13 +43,17 @@ def notify(title, message, urgency="normal"):
def play(device):
"""Hand the disc to DVD mode through the normal window toggle.
"""Hand the disc to DVD mode.
classroom-dvd-session owns the player from here: it puts a black
surface up immediately, starts VLC behind it, and provides the
classroom's own controls. Going through classroom-window keeps the
dock button behaving like every other one — focus if it is already
up, rather than starting a second session.
classroom's own controls.
Started directly, with nothing arranging windows on the way. A second
session cannot happen — the session takes an exclusive lock on
dvd.lock and exits if it cannot get it — and bringing an existing one
back to the front is the panel's job, not this command's. That is
what replaced the window helper.
"""
if shutil.which(PLAYER) is None:
notify(
@@ -59,16 +62,7 @@ def play(device):
)
return 1
subprocess.run(
[
WINDOW_TOOL,
"toggle",
"--match",
"(?i)vlc",
"--",
SESSION_TOOL,
]
)
subprocess.Popen([SESSION_TOOL], start_new_session=True)
return 0