blitztext-app-linux/linux/blitztext/caret.py
mARTin-B78 9e291437bd stability + settings: fix AT-SPI session freeze, markdown Manual, bigger emojis (v1.9.6)
caret: change default overlay_anchor from "caret" to "pointer" — AT-SPI's
synchronous D-Bus extents read on the GTK main loop could freeze the entire
X11 session when the focused app was slow to respond. Pointer anchor is a
reliable fallback (the mouse is almost always near where you're typing) and
avoids AT-SPI entirely by default.

caret: wrap the AT-SPI rect() read in a daemon thread with a hard 300ms
timeout — so even if overlay_anchor="caret" is configured manually, a frozen
or unresponsive target app can never stall the GTK main loop.

settings: replace the Manual tab's plain TextView with a styled markdown
renderer (_md_panel): # h1/h2/h3 headings, **bold**, *italic*, `inline code`,
> blockquotes, --- rules, bullet/numbered lists, and | tables |.

settings: infobox background changed from theme-adaptive grey (unreadable on
dark themes) to a fixed blue tint (rgba 66,133,244 @ 9%) with a matching blue
border — readable in both light and dark themes.

settings: active notebook tab now shows bold text with a #1a73e8 blue colour
and extra padding, making the current tab obviously distinct.

settings: emoji picker buttons enlarged to 20 px / 38×38 px minimum (grid)
and 18 px / 34×34 px (category bar) via bt-emoji-btn / bt-emoji-cat-btn CSS
classes — previously rendered at the default button label size (~11 px).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-09 14:20:05 +02:00

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"""Best-effort screen anchor for the overlay: *where* to point the bubble's tip.
The overlay wants to sit at "the cursor where the text will land". On X11 there
is no portable way to read the text caret of an arbitrary app, so we degrade
through a chain of decreasing precision:
1. Mouse pointer — `xdotool getmouselocation`. Default; always available on X11;
a reliable proxy since the pointer is usually near where you're typing.
2. AT-SPI caret — the real text insertion point (opt-in via overlay_anchor=caret).
Only native GTK/Qt apps expose it; many terminals / Electron / web views do
not. The blocking D-Bus read runs in a thread with a 300ms hard timeout so it
can never stall the GTK main loop and freeze the session.
3. Window / screen — top-centre of the target window, else screen bottom-centre.
Everything here is defensive: any failure falls through to the next tier, and
the whole module is optional — if AT-SPI isn't running you simply get the
pointer anchor. Returns a `(x, y, region)` anchor in **root/screen** pixels,
where `region` is the caret/line box so the overlay can avoid covering it.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import shutil
import subprocess
import threading
import time
from dataclasses import dataclass
from .logbuffer import log
@dataclass
class Anchor:
x: int # root-relative x to point the tail tip at
y: int # root-relative y (top of the caret/line box)
height: int = 0 # caret/line height, so the bubble can clear the line
source: str = "" # "caret" | "pointer" | "window" | "corner" — for logging
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# Tier 1: AT-SPI caret tracking (best-effort, passive)
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
class _CaretTracker:
"""Remember the most recently focused text object; read its caret lazily.
*Why so cautious.* AT-SPI queries (``get_character_extents`` and friends) are
**synchronous, blocking D-Bus round-trips into the target application**. The
earlier design subscribed to the high-frequency ``object:text-caret-moved``
signal and ran those blocking reads from *inside* the event handler. Two ways
that wedges a whole GNOME/X11 session:
• Calling a synchronous AT-SPI method from within an AT-SPI event dispatch
re-enters the a11y dispatcher and can deadlock the accessibility bus.
• ``text-caret-moved`` fires once *per character* — and delivering text is
exactly what this app does, typing via ``xdotool`` into the focused
field. So a single dictation became a storm of blocking round-trips on
the GTK main loop, congesting the a11y bus until the desktop froze.
So we now subscribe to **focus changes only** (rare, and never emitted by our
own synthetic typing), cache just the focused accessible, and do the one
blocking extents read **on demand** in :meth:`rect` — called once, when the
overlay shows, outside any event dispatch. Worst case is a slightly delayed
overlay placement, never a frozen session.
"""
STALE_SECONDS = 30.0 # ignore a focus older than this
def __init__(self) -> None:
self._ok = False
self._listener = None
self._focused = None # last focused accessible (read lazily)
self._stamp = 0.0
self._Atspi = None
def start(self) -> bool:
"""Register the AT-SPI focus listener on the running GLib main loop.
Safe to call when accessibility is disabled — it just returns False and
the anchor logic skips this tier from then on.
"""
try:
import gi
gi.require_version("Atspi", "2.0")
from gi.repository import Atspi # noqa: N813
except (ImportError, ValueError) as exc:
log(f"[overlay] AT-SPI unavailable, caret anchor disabled: {exc}")
return False
try:
# init() is idempotent; returns 0/1. Connects to the a11y registry.
Atspi.init()
self._Atspi = Atspi
self._listener = Atspi.EventListener.new(self._on_focus)
# Focus changes only. Deliberately NOT "object:text-caret-moved": that
# firehose (one event per typed character, including our own output)
# plus synchronous reads is what could freeze the session.
self._listener.register("object:state-changed:focused")
self._ok = True
log("[overlay] AT-SPI caret tracking active")
return True
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001 - a11y bus may be down/locked
log(f"[overlay] AT-SPI init failed, caret anchor disabled: {exc}")
self._ok = False
return False
def stop(self) -> None:
try:
if self._listener is not None:
self._listener.deregister("object:state-changed:focused")
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001
pass
self._listener = None
self._focused = None
self._ok = False
def _on_focus(self, event) -> None:
# Runs on the GLib main thread (same loop GTK uses). Do the *minimum*:
# stash the focused accessible and stamp it. Crucially, make NO synchronous
# AT-SPI calls here — that would re-enter the a11y dispatcher and risk
# deadlocking the bus. The blocking extents read happens later, in rect().
try:
if not event.detail1:
return # a *de*focus event — nothing to track
self._focused = event.source
self._stamp = time.time()
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001
pass
def _caret_rect(self, acc) -> tuple[int, int, int, int] | None:
Atspi = self._Atspi
text = None
try:
text = acc.get_text_iface()
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001
text = None
if text is None:
return None
try:
offset = text.get_caret_offset()
# Extents of the character at the caret, in absolute screen coords.
ext = text.get_character_extents(offset, Atspi.CoordType.SCREEN)
x, y, w, h = ext.x, ext.y, ext.width, ext.height
if w == 0 and h == 0:
# End-of-line / empty field: fall back to the component box so we
# at least anchor on the right widget.
comp = acc.get_component_iface()
if comp is None:
return None
cext = comp.get_extents(Atspi.CoordType.SCREEN)
return int(cext.x), int(cext.y), 2, int(cext.height) or 18
if x < 0 or y < 0:
return None
return int(x), int(y), int(w) or 2, int(h) or 18
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001
return None
def rect(self) -> tuple[int, int, int, int] | None:
# Called once when the overlay shows (not on the a11y hot path).
# We run the blocking D-Bus extents read in a worker thread and join it
# with a hard 300ms deadline — so even a frozen or slow target app can
# never stall the GTK main loop long enough to freeze the session.
if not self._ok or self._focused is None:
return None
if time.time() - self._stamp > self.STALE_SECONDS:
return None
result: list[tuple[int, int, int, int] | None] = [None]
focused = self._focused
def _read() -> None:
try:
result[0] = self._caret_rect(focused)
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001
pass
t = threading.Thread(target=_read, daemon=True)
t.start()
t.join(timeout=0.3)
return result[0]
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
# Tier 2 + 3: pointer and window fallbacks
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
def _pointer() -> tuple[int, int] | None:
if not shutil.which("xdotool"):
return None
try:
out = subprocess.run(
["xdotool", "getmouselocation", "--shell"],
capture_output=True, text=True, check=True, timeout=0.5,
).stdout
except (OSError, subprocess.SubprocessError):
return None
vals: dict[str, str] = {}
for line in out.splitlines():
if "=" in line:
k, _, v = line.partition("=")
vals[k.strip()] = v.strip()
try:
return int(vals["X"]), int(vals["Y"])
except (KeyError, ValueError):
return None
def _window_box(window_id: str | None) -> tuple[int, int, int] | None:
"""Top-centre of the target window: (x, y, height_hint)."""
if not window_id or not shutil.which("xdotool"):
return None
try:
out = subprocess.run(
["xdotool", "getwindowgeometry", "--shell", window_id],
capture_output=True, text=True, check=True, timeout=0.5,
).stdout
except (OSError, subprocess.SubprocessError):
return None
vals: dict[str, str] = {}
for line in out.splitlines():
if "=" in line:
k, _, v = line.partition("=")
vals[k.strip()] = v.strip()
try:
x, y = int(vals["X"]), int(vals["Y"])
w = int(vals["WIDTH"])
return x + w // 2, y + 40, 0
except (KeyError, ValueError):
return None
def _screen_bottom_centre() -> tuple[int, int]:
try:
import gi
gi.require_version("Gdk", "3.0")
from gi.repository import Gdk
disp = Gdk.Display.get_default()
mon = disp.get_primary_monitor() or disp.get_monitor(0)
geo = mon.get_geometry()
return geo.x + geo.width // 2, geo.y + geo.height - 140
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001
return 960, 800 # last-ditch constant; better than crashing
_tracker: _CaretTracker | None = None
def start_tracking() -> None:
"""Begin passive caret tracking (call once, from the GTK main thread)."""
global _tracker
if _tracker is None:
_tracker = _CaretTracker()
_tracker.start()
def stop_tracking() -> None:
global _tracker
if _tracker is not None:
_tracker.stop()
_tracker = None
def resolve(anchor_mode: str, window_id: str | None) -> Anchor:
"""Resolve the on-screen anchor for the overlay, honouring `anchor_mode`.
anchor_mode:
"caret" -> caret → pointer → window → corner
"pointer" -> pointer → window → corner
"corner" -> window → corner
Always returns an Anchor (never None) so callers don't special-case failure.
"""
if anchor_mode == "caret" and _tracker is not None:
r = _tracker.rect()
if r is not None:
x, y, _w, h = r
return Anchor(x=x, y=y, height=h or 18, source="caret")
if anchor_mode in ("caret", "pointer"):
p = _pointer()
if p is not None:
return Anchor(x=p[0], y=p[1], height=0, source="pointer")
wb = _window_box(window_id)
if wb is not None:
return Anchor(x=wb[0], y=wb[1], height=0, source="window")
x, y = _screen_bottom_centre()
return Anchor(x=x, y=y, height=0, source="corner")