Settings: HANDS_SWAP_SIDES defaults to auto, and old untouched configs move to it

frametop.conf.example said HANDS_SWAP_SIDES=0, and desktops.sh copies it on a
fresh install, so every new install forced ft-camd's side camera names and
turned the hand tracker's own side check off. Some SteamVR restarts swap those
names, and then hands land beside their cutouts and recordings are mislabelled.

The example now says auto. scripts/conf-migrate.sh, run by install.sh and
hands/rec/install.sh, replaces the old line only where it's still exactly as
the example wrote it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- `ft-camd` borrows XRService's camera buffers and publishes the four IR tracking cameras to `/run/user/UID/frametop-hands/cam-ring`. It runs on the host as `frametop-camd.service`, with file capabilities that `hands/run.sh install` sets through sudo, and it drops them once set up. A rebuild clears them: `hands/run.sh caps`.
- `ft-hands` runs in the `dev` container as `frametop-hands.service`. It finds and triangulates the hands, and publishes `hands` (read by ft-screens' cutouts) and `gestures` (pinches and grips, read by the pointer helper) next to the ring.
- The install leaves both off, and they don't start with SteamVR. `ft-handsctl on` starts them while SteamVR runs, and `ft-handsctl off` stops them; they also stop with SteamVR. The install links `ft-handsctl` into `~/.local/bin`. `ft-handsctl status` and `ft-handsctl log` (or `hands/run.sh status` and `log`) show how they're doing, `ft-handsctl cutouts on|off` turns just the cutouts off, and `ft-handsctl gestures` shows pinches and grips live.
- Settings in `~/.config/frametop.conf`: `HANDS_SWAP_SIDES` (after some SteamVR restarts the side cameras' names come out swapped, and hands land beside the holes; `hands/tools/check_sides.py --ring` tells), `HANDS_CPUS`, the cameras it tracks with (`HANDS_CAMERAS`, `HANDS_BRIGHT`, `HANDS_BRIGHT_ON`, `HANDS_BRIGHT_OFF`, `HANDS_COLOR_LEFT`, `HANDS_COLOR_CROP`), and the pointer helper's `POINTER_HANDS`, `POINTER_PINCH_GAIN`, `POINTER_PINCH_DEADZONE`, `POINTER_GRIP_GAIN`, `POINTER_GRIP_BELOW`, and `POINTER_PINCH_TYPING`. The example config explains each.
- Settings in `~/.config/frametop.conf`: `HANDS_SWAP_SIDES` (`auto`, the default: ft-hands tells from the hands when some SteamVR restart has swapped the side cameras' names, and fixes them; `0` or `1` force them, and `hands/tools/check_sides.py --ring` tells which is right), `HANDS_CPUS`, the cameras it tracks with (`HANDS_CAMERAS`, `HANDS_BRIGHT`, `HANDS_BRIGHT_ON`, `HANDS_BRIGHT_OFF`, `HANDS_COLOR_LEFT`, `HANDS_COLOR_CROP`), and the pointer helper's `POINTER_HANDS`, `POINTER_PINCH_GAIN`, `POINTER_PINCH_DEADZONE`, `POINTER_GRIP_GAIN`, `POINTER_GRIP_BELOW`, and `POINTER_PINCH_TYPING`. The example config explains each.
Details, options, and the recording and replay tools are in [hands/README.md](../hands/README.md).