fix(vdisplay/gamescope): DM-flavor-aware session takeover — stop masking Nobara's plasmalogin to death

Field report (Nobara 43 HTPC): switching the host to Steam Game Mode
mid-stream permanently black-screened the box. Live-proven root cause on
a Nobara repro VM: our takeover masks the box's gamescope-session-plus
unit, plasmalogin's Relogin=true then fails its session Exec repeatedly
and trips systemd's start limit within ~1 s — the display manager dies,
and our restore verb (unmask + user start) cannot bring a seatless
gamescope back. Only 'reset-failed + restart' of the DM recovers.

The takeover is now display-manager-flavor-aware:
- SDDM (Bazzite/SteamOS) keeps the proven mask+SIGKILL path unchanged.
- plasmalogin/unknown DMs never mask: with privilege (root or an
  operator polkit rule scoped to the DM unit — documented) the host
  stops the DM for the stream and restores it with reset-failed +
  restart (PUNKTFUNK_RECOVER_SESSION_CMD as fallback), recorded in the
  persisted takeover state so a host crash still restores; without
  privilege the managed takeover degrades to ATTACH and mirrors the
  box's live Game Mode instead of destabilizing the seat. Both legs of
  the privileged cycle live-verified on the repro VM (headless managed
  session works with zero login sessions; render nodes are 0666).
  A loaded-but-inactive leftover instance never triggers the DM stop.

Companion fixes from the same triage:
- ensure_box_gamescope_mode gains the attach-only rebuild-probe guard
  both managed paths already had (stale post-capture-loss detection
  restarted the box's unit), and no longer re-modes a box that drives a
  physical display — attach mirrors on-glass; re-mode is the
  headless-box model.
- Capture-loss rebuilds targeting gamescope get a 100 s budget: the
  40 s budget expired inside the first 45 s Steam-cold-start launch
  attempt, a guaranteed single-shot failure.
- A PUNKTFUNK_COMPOSITOR pin now WARNs once per capture loss when the
  live session no longer matches it (the pin disables
  session-following — the reporter's original stream-death trigger).
- A managed session that took nothing over (client gamescope pin beside
  a live desktop) is stopped on disconnect instead of being orphaned
  forever.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -100,8 +100,9 @@ For Gaming Mode there are two models (pick one; the shipped default is **attach*
- **Attach** (`PUNKTFUNK_GAMESCOPE_ATTACH=1`, the template's default) — the **box** owns its
gamescope session on its own display, and the host attaches to whatever's live without ever
tearing it down (a box-owned autologin session is restarted at the client's resolution on a
mismatch). Switching Desktop ↔ Game is rock-solid.
tearing it down (on a headless box, a box-owned autologin session is restarted at the client's
resolution on a mismatch; with a display connected it streams at the box's own mode). Switching
Desktop ↔ Game is rock-solid.
- **Managed** (`PUNKTFUNK_GAMESCOPE_MANAGED=1`, and remove the attach line) — the host takes the
box's gamescope over and relaunches it **headless** at the *client's* exact resolution and
refresh — Game Mode on the virtual screen — restoring the box on idle.