fix(headless/kde): make libei input work headlessly — portal + pre-seeded RemoteDesktop grant
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On a headless KDE appliance, libei input injection silently failed: the EIS socket comes from the
xdg RemoteDesktop portal, which never came up, and even up it would pop an unanswerable "Allow
remote control?" dialog. Three fixes in run-headless-kde.sh, all idempotent + safe on the dev box:
- Reach graphical-session.target: xdg-desktop-portal is ordered behind it and its start job fails
  without it, but a headless linger session never gets there and Fedora's target has
  RefuseManualStart=yes — drop that in once, then start the target.
- Start the portal with `start` (the old `try-restart` is a no-op when inactive — the first-boot
  case), so it actually comes up.
- Pre-seed the RemoteDesktop grant: vendor the `kde-authorized` permission-store GVariant DB and
  copy it to ~/.local/share/flatpak/db/ (never clobbering an existing one), so the portal grants
  RemoteDesktop without a dialog. Shipped by the RPM + .deb.

Diagnosed + fixed live on the Fedora 44 KDE box: libei devices RESUME and emit (MouseMove/keys).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# D-Bus-activated X11 apps inherit it — then restart.
systemctl --user import-environment WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ${DISPLAY:+DISPLAY} 2>/dev/null || true
dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS ${DISPLAY:+DISPLAY} 2>/dev/null || true
# --no-block: queue the restart and return immediately. A synchronous try-restart of the
# portal chain blocks bring-up ~30s (xdg-desktop-portal is Type=dbus and waits for its bus
# name); the portal only needs to be ready before the FIRST client streams (seconds later,
# user-driven), not before plasmashell starts.
systemctl --user --no-block try-restart plasma-xdg-desktop-portal-kde.service xdg-desktop-portal-kde.service xdg-desktop-portal.service 2>/dev/null || true
# Pre-seed the RemoteDesktop grant for headless input injection (libei). KWin's xdg portal would
# otherwise pop an "Allow remote control?" dialog on every session Start() — which a headless host
# can't answer, so EIS setup times out and input silently fails. The `kde-authorized` permission-
# store table (this tiny GVariant DB, shipped next to this script) pre-authorizes it. Copy it in if
# the user has none yet; never clobber an existing one.
DB="$HOME/.local/share/flatpak/db/kde-authorized"
SELF_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
if [[ ! -s "$DB" && -s "$SELF_DIR/kde-authorized" ]]; then
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$DB")" && cp "$SELF_DIR/kde-authorized" "$DB"
echo "seeded RemoteDesktop grant: $DB"
fi
# Reach graphical-session.target so xdg-desktop-portal (which is ordered After / fails its start
# job without it) can come up — a headless linger session never gets there on its own, and Fedora's
# target carries RefuseManualStart=yes, so drop that in once. Without the portal, libei input fails.
GST_DROPIN="$HOME/.config/systemd/user/graphical-session.target.d"
if [[ ! -f "$GST_DROPIN/10-punktfunk-headless.conf" ]]; then
mkdir -p "$GST_DROPIN"
printf '[Unit]\nRefuseManualStart=no\n' > "$GST_DROPIN/10-punktfunk-headless.conf"
systemctl --user daemon-reload 2>/dev/null || true
fi
systemctl --user start graphical-session.target 2>/dev/null || true
# Bring the portal up against the env imported above. `start` (not the old `try-restart`, a no-op
# when inactive — the headless first-boot case) so it actually comes up; `--no-block` since
# xdg-desktop-portal is Type=dbus and blocks ~30s waiting for its bus name, and it only needs to be
# ready before the FIRST client streams (seconds later), not before plasmashell.
systemctl --user --no-block restart plasma-xdg-desktop-portal-kde.service 2>/dev/null || true
systemctl --user --no-block start xdg-desktop-portal.service 2>/dev/null || true
# Polkit authentication agent: without it, Discover / PackageKit can't get authorization to
# install packages (polkitd is the policy engine; the *agent* is the GUI prompt). A full Plasma