utils/gatelock
Krzysztof kuhy Rudnicki 39e52d07c2 Stop the recovery tick stealing our own grab, and fix pre-commit for the monorepo
`_holds_grab` asked `grab_current() is self._root`, but our own transient
children take the grab for themselves: a posted Tk menu grabs the menu
window, so the test read "the grab was lost" and `grab_set_global()` took it
back a second later, off our own widget mid-interaction. That is what made
screen-locker's sport selector unusable while locked on 2026-07-26. The
predicate is now `grab_current() is not None` -- any window we own means the
lock still has pointer and keyboard -- and it is public, `holds_grab`, so an
embedder can ask the same question instead of re-deriving it. Anything that
does not resolve against our widget map (a Tcl-created `ttk.Combobox`
popdown, a stale name) raises `KeyError` and counts as lost: fail closed,
because losing a popdown beats believing we hold a grab we do not. The
blind spot for a second `tk.Tk()` reporting its root as "." is unchanged from
the old test, and now written down.

`_verify` and `_drain` scheduled the next tick *after* running it, so any
exception ended all re-assertion of coverage, grab and VT for the rest of the
lock -- the exact fail-open this module exists to prevent, in a file whose
docstring is a monotonicity proof. The reschedule moves into `finally`, and
the warnings only fire when the reason changes: these states can last the
whole lock, and a 1Hz journal stream is not the alternative to silence.

The pre-commit side: both subproject configs were written as if cwd were the
subproject, but pre-commit runs hooks from the git root -- which is ~/utils,
not gatelock. Every pushed run since at least 2026-07-11 has been red, and
for compounding reasons: pylint and bandit could not find their config,
bandit's tests exclusion never matched, the pytest hook ran with no config at
all, and with no `files:` filter each config linted the *whole* monorepo, so
gatelock's mypy was type-checking crdt-sync. All paths are now root-relative,
each config is scoped to its own subproject, and the pytest hook goes through
a shared `scripts/run_subproject_tests.sh` that supplies the missing `cd` and
fails loudly if the subproject is gone.

Scoping via `files:` has one sharp edge -- rename the directory and the regex
matches nothing, so every hook passes on zero files, green and useless. An
`always_run` scope-guard hook turns that silent pass into a failure.

bandit 1.7.10 threw inside its AST visitor on Python 3.14 and *skipped* every
file while still reporting zero issues; 1.9.4 actually scans. Codespell was
also flagging a real typo the noise had buried.

Housekeeping the above turned up: `gatelock/.github/` and `crdt-sync/.github/`
were dead -- GitHub only reads the root `.github/workflows`, which already has
all four jobs -- and the two subproject `.gitignore`s were byte-identical to
each other and subsumed by the new root one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 15:08:41 +02:00
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gatelock Stop the recovery tick stealing our own grab, and fix pre-commit for the monorepo 2026-07-26 15:08:41 +02:00
.pre-commit-config.yaml Stop the recovery tick stealing our own grab, and fix pre-commit for the monorepo 2026-07-26 15:08:41 +02:00
LICENSE Initial gatelock: shared lock-window + HMAC log-integrity backend 2026-06-19 17:39:44 +02:00
pyproject.toml gatelock v0.2.0: per-output locking, monotonic recovery, N-app arbitration 2026-07-25 14:30:03 +02:00
README.md gatelock: warm-tint the unified-design-system palette, add on-fill token 2026-07-21 21:11:07 +02:00
requirements.txt Initial gatelock: shared lock-window + HMAC log-integrity backend 2026-06-19 17:39:44 +02:00

gatelock

Shared fullscreen lock-window + HMAC log-integrity backend, extracted from three personal automation tools that each independently implemented "lock the screen with a blocking overlay until a condition is met": diet_guard, wake_alarm, and screen-locker.

Why

All three reimplemented the same tkinter fullscreen mechanics (overrideredirect, input grab, VT-switch disable) at different levels of maturity, and the HMAC-signed-state module had already been hand-copied between two of them because they live in separate repos. gatelock is the one place that logic now lives.

Install

pip install "gatelock @ git+https://github.com/kuhyx/utils@gatelock-v0.1.1#subdirectory=gatelock"

Usage

import tkinter as tk
from gatelock import GateRoot, LockConfig, LockWindow

class MyGate:
    def __init__(self, *, demo_mode: bool) -> None:
        self.root = GateRoot()
        self.root.on_callback_error = self._handle_callback_error
        config = LockConfig(mode="soft" if demo_mode else "hard")
        self._lock = LockWindow(self.root, config, hooks=self)
        self._lock.setup()
        # ... build your widgets ...
        self._lock.grab_input()

    def on_focus_ready(self) -> None:
        self.my_entry.focus_force()

    def on_callback_error(self) -> None:
        self.close()

    def on_close(self) -> None:
        ...  # release any hardware/state held while locked

    def close(self) -> None:
        self._lock.close()

    def run(self) -> None:
        self._lock.run()

LockConfig's mode preset bundles the common combination ("soft" = topmost only, typeable, WM-escapable; "hard" = overrideredirect + global grab + VT-disable). Each axis (overrideredirect, grab, disable_vt, grab_retry_ms) can be set explicitly to reproduce a consumer's exact prior behavior where it diverges from the preset.

gatelock.log_integrity ports the HMAC-signed state module used by all three projects; DEFAULT_HMAC_KEY_FILE (/etc/workout-locker/hmac.key) is unchanged so existing signed history keeps verifying.

Development

python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
pytest
pre-commit install && pre-commit install --hook-type pre-push