Screens: a reset button next to the grab bar, clickable in VR games

Each desktop screen gets a reset button left of its bar (a reticle). It
puts every screen back in its layout around where you are now, like
Meta+Shift+R (ft-layout apply).

In a VR game the screens leave the controllers to the game (the
outside_games and dashboard modes), so a controller couldn't click any
of their controls. Aiming a hand controller at the reset button now sets
MakeOverlaysInteractiveIfVisible on that button's overlay alone, so the
trigger clicks it; the flag clears half a second after the aim leaves a
zone twice as wide, and the game gets the controllers back. The aim
comes from the laser poses ft-screens already reads to show the controls.

The ft-layout spawn is now RunLayout(cmd), shared with the arrange.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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`IVRApplications::GetCurrentSceneProcessId()` is 0 when no game is running (the Frame's home environment isn't a scene app) and the game's process ID while one is. ft-screens checks it twice a second, turns the flag off while a game runs, and by default hides the screens unless the dashboard is open. Flatscreen games run inside Steam's gamescope overlay and aren't scene apps, which is why "only with the dashboard open" is offered as a controller setting.
The reset button needs to work in a game, where the screens have the flag off. So ft-screens turns the flag on for that button's overlay alone while a hand controller aims within about one button's width of it, and off half a second after the aim leaves a zone twice as wide. ft-screens finds the aim from the controllers' laser poses, which it reads anyway to show the controls, so it doesn't need SteamVR's laser to be on first. The game loses the controllers only while you aim at the button.
## Floating windows
[floating-windows.md](floating-windows.md) describes the feature and its parts. Drag and drop and the clipboard only work between windows of one compositor, so a floating window stays a KWin window and gets a KWin output of its own: one of the spare outputs KWin opens after the screens, shown by ft-screens as a panel cropped to the window. What follows is how KWin 6.2.5 behaves underneath that, from its source (`src/backends/wayland/`) and from trying it on the Frametop desktop.
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Each KWin window is one screen. ft-screens sets its size with an `xdg_toplevel` configure and KWin resizes the output to match, live. Frames arrive as DMA-BUFs and go to SteamVR through OpenVR's `IVRIPCResourceManagerClient::ImportDmabuf`, with no copy and no size limit.
Every screen is an overlay named `frametop.screen.N` with four controls:
Every screen is an overlay named `frametop.screen.N` with five controls:
- `.bar` moves the screen. Drag it with any laser or with the 3D mouse, whose right-drag tilts. Scrolling while you drag pushes the screen away or pulls it closer, along the line from your head.
- `.curve` bends the screen into a cylinder around you, using your current distance as the radius, or makes it flat again.
- `.roll` rolls the screen when you drag it sideways, like a knob. It snaps level within 2.5°, and scrolling on it turns 5° per notch.
- `.resize`, the tab on the bottom right corner, sets the width. Screens go down to 15 cm wide.
- `.reset`, left of the bar, puts every screen back in its layout around where you are now, like Meta+Shift+R (`ft-layout apply`). In a VR game, where the screens leave the controllers to the game, aiming a controller at it turns SteamVR's laser on for that button alone, so the trigger clicks it; the game gets the controllers back half a second after you aim away.
The controls are sized from both the screen's width and its distance from you, follow the surface of a curved screen, and stay invisible until a laser or the 3D mouse's cursor lands on one or comes within about 1.5 times a button's size of it. While invisible they're still there, fully transparent, so SteamVR's laser can find them. They're translucent until a laser is on them, like SteamVR's own window controls.
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## Frametop Display Settings and ft-layout
When the desktop starts, its screens arrange themselves around where you're facing. You can move them by hand at any time and put them back with Meta+Shift+R, the Reset Screen Layout menu entry, Arrange now in the app, or a mouse button mapped to Reset desktop screen layout.
When the desktop starts, its screens arrange themselves around where you're facing. You can move them by hand at any time and put them back with Meta+Shift+R, the reset button left of any screen's bar, the Reset Screen Layout menu entry, Arrange now in the app, or a mouse button mapped to Reset desktop screen layout.
The desktop's own screen arrangement follows where the screens are around you, whatever their numbers: a screen you see to the left of another is to its left in Plasma too, so the pointer and dragged windows cross straight to it. Screens one above the other stack, and screens pinned to a wrist or your head come last. It's updated at startup, after arranging or saving the layout, and half a second after you let go of a screen you moved. With the headset off there's no head pose to go by, and the arrangement stays as it was.