Pause Frametop for VR games

Frametop kept using the headset during games: with gaze mode off, our eye tracker still took
about 60% of a core, remote desktop about 2 cores while on, and KWin kept drawing hidden
screens because ft-screens sent their frame callbacks at 90 Hz. Pausing gives that back, and
resuming brings back only what pausing stopped. It's also a way to keep the gaze service and
our eye tracker off during games, which PR #13 asked for.

Paused (input/game_pause.py, run by the input relay):
- frametop-gaze stops (ft-eyegrab then idles by itself), and hand tracking and remote desktop
  stop if they run
- the desktop hides and slows down: ft-screens "pause on" hides every panel and sends KWin a
  frame callback once a second; or, with pause_desktop "close", the desktop closes and starts
  again on resume
- the relay lets go of the 3D mouse, typing goes to Steam, and mapped buttons and key
  combinations do only pause_toggle, steam_menu and commands

Toggled by both thumbsticks clicked together twice (configurable), read passively from
vrserver's web socket (input/vrws.py) so it works in games and takes nothing from them; by the
new pause_toggle action; by input/ft-pause; and, with pause_auto (default on), by a VR game
starting and ending, which the pointer helper now reports ("vrgame 1|0"). Frametop Input
Settings has a Games page for it. update-check.py checks the web socket, and doesn't count a
paused gaze service as failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@
// own; also for flatscreen games, which aren't scene apps).
// - during a VR game the screens hide unless the dashboard is open (g_inGames, default),
// or stay visible over it; the hotkey still shows them.
// - paused ("pause on", from the input relay when Frametop pauses for a VR game,
// input/game_pause.py): every screen and floating window hides whatever the mode, the
// hotkey, or the dashboard says, and compositor.c gives KWin a frame callback once a
// second instead of 90 times, so KWin and its apps hardly draw. "pause off" undoes it.
// - hand cutouts (handcut.cpp): where ft-hands (hands/) tracks a hand between an eye and a
// screen, that eye sees through the screen (to Room View). Only then is the screen
// drawn by us, into a side-by-side buffer (one half per eye); otherwise its client
@@ -320,6 +324,7 @@ double g_gestureAngle = 20; // gesture: look within this of the controller
std::string g_gestureHand = "left";
Lasers g_lasers = Lasers::OutsideGames; // when controllers' lasers work the screens (see the top)
bool g_gameRunning = false; // a scene app (VR game) is running
bool g_paused = false; // Frametop paused for a VR game: everything hidden (see the top)
InGames g_inGames = InGames::Hide; // during a VR game, the always mode acts like the dashboard mode
// ---------------------------------------------------------------- chrome (bar, button, handle)
@@ -734,6 +739,7 @@ void UpdateGame() {
}
bool ModeVisible() {
if (g_paused) return false;
switch (EffectiveMode()) {
case Mode::Always: return !g_manual;
case Mode::Toggle: return g_manual;
@@ -792,7 +798,7 @@ void UpdateVisibility() {
Mat head;
const bool haveHead = DevicePose(vr::k_unTrackedDeviceIndex_Hmd, &head);
for (auto &[i, s] : g_screens) {
bool visible = s.shown && (shared || s.drag != Drag::None) && !s.alone;
bool visible = !g_paused && s.shown && (shared || s.drag != Drag::None) && !s.alone;
// A floating window's panel: while a window floats on it, its output is on, and the
// window isn't minimized (and once it has a crop).
if (s.floating) visible = visible && s.floatOn && s.outputOn && !s.minimized && s.cropW > 0;
@@ -1569,6 +1575,7 @@ int ft_vr_modifiers(uint32_t format, uint64_t *out, int max) {
}
bool ft_vr_screens_shown(void) { return g_vr && ModeVisible(); }
bool ft_vr_paused(void) { return g_paused; }
} // extern "C"
@@ -2104,6 +2111,17 @@ void ft_vr_command(const char *cmd, char *reply, int size) {
g_manual = always ? !want : want;
UpdateVisibility();
std::snprintf(reply, size, "ok %s", want ? "shown" : "hidden");
} else if (std::sscanf(cmd, "pause %15s", word) == 1) {
if (!std::strcmp(word, "on") || !std::strcmp(word, "off")) {
const bool on = !std::strcmp(word, "on");
if (on != g_paused)
std::printf("%s\n", on ? "paused for a VR game: everything hidden, KWin slowed down" : "resumed");
g_paused = on;
UpdateVisibility();
} else if (std::strcmp(word, "state") != 0) {
return (void)std::snprintf(reply, size, "error pause on|off|state");
}
std::snprintf(reply, size, "ok %s", g_paused ? "paused" : "running");
} else if (std::sscanf(cmd, "ingames %15s", word) == 1) {
if (!std::strcmp(word, "hide")) g_inGames = InGames::Hide;
else if (!std::strcmp(word, "visible")) g_inGames = InGames::Visible;