Settings Reset Crash (configparser.NoOptionError: No option 'keyboard_mode' in section: 'kivy')

[maltfield]

This issue will track the effort to fix the application from crashing with the following error

configparser.NoOptionError: No option 'keyboard_mode' in section: 'kivy'

Steps to reproduce

1. Delete the existing config file, if it exists with rm ~/.local/share/.buskill/config.ini
2. Execute the app with /path/to/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/bin/python3.12 src/main.py
3. Click the hamburger menu -> Settings
4. Click the "Reset" button on the top-right
5. Click the Erase Settings button to confirm
6. Press the back button in the top-left

Error

The app will crash with the following output to the /tmp/buskill.log file

17:02:04,337 root INFO ===============================================================================
17:02:04,337 root INFO INFO: Writing to log file '/tmp/buskill.log'
17:02:04,337 root DEBUG BUSKILL_VERSION|{'VERSION': '', 'GITHUB_REF': '', 'GITHUB_SHA': '', 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH': ''}|
17:02:04,338 root DEBUG os.environ|environ({'SHELL': '/bin/bash', 'WINDOWID': '18874371', 'QT_ACCESSIBILITY': '1', 'COLORTERM': 'truecolor', 'XDG_MENU_PREFIX': 'xfce-', 'GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID': 'c3', 'VMTYPE': 'AppVM', 'SSH_AUTH_SOCK': '/tmp/ssh-D4IVpaTquvCb/agent.711', 'QREXEC_AGENT_PID': '905', 'DESKTOP_SESSION': 'xfce', 'SSH_AGENT_PID': '784', 'GTK_MODULES': 'gail:atk-bridge', 'XDG_SEAT': 'seat0', 'PWD': '/home/user/sandbox/buskill-app', 'LOGNAME': 'user', 'XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP': 'X-QUBES', 'QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME': 'qt5ct', 'XDG_SESSION_TYPE': 'x11', 'GPG_AGENT_INFO': '/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1', 'SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID': '604', 'QREXEC_REQUESTED_TARGET_TYPE': '', 'WINDOWPATH': '7', 'HOME': '/home/user', 'LANG': 'en_US.UTF-8', 'LS_COLORS': 'rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=00:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=00:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arc=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lha=01;31:*.lz4=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.tzo=01;31:*.t7z=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lrz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.lzo=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.zst=01;31:*.tzst=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.alz=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.cab=01;31:*.wim=01;31:*.swm=01;31:*.dwm=01;31:*.esd=01;31:*.avif=01;35:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.mjpg=01;35:*.mjpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.webm=01;35:*.webp=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.m4a=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.opus=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36:*~=00;90:*#=00;90:*.bak=00;90:*.old=00;90:*.orig=00;90:*.part=00;90:*.rej=00;90:*.swp=00;90:*.tmp=00;90:*.dpkg-dist=00;90:*.dpkg-old=00;90:*.ucf-dist=00;90:*.ucf-new=00;90:*.ucf-old=00;90:*.rpmnew=00;90:*.rpmorig=00;90:*.rpmsave=00;90:', '_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING': '1', 'XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP': 'XFCE', 'VTE_VERSION': '7006', 'QREXEC_SERVICE_FULL_NAME': 'qubes.StartApp+xfce4-terminal', 'GIO_USE_NETWORK_MONITOR': 'base', 'QTWEBENGINE_DICTIONARIES_PATH': '/usr/share/hunspell-bdic/', 'GDK_DEBUG': 'gl-disable vulkan-disable', 'QREXEC_SERVICE_ARGUMENT': 'xfce4-terminal', 'UPDTYPE': 'NonUpdateableVM', 'XDG_SESSION_CLASS': 'user', 'TERM': 'xterm-256color', 'QUBES_ENV_SOURCED': '1', 'QREXEC_REMOTE_DOMAIN': 'dom0', 'USER': 'user', 'DISPLAY': ':0', 'GSK_RENDERER': 'cairo', 'SHLVL': '2', 'XDG_VTNR': '7', 'LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE': '1', 'XDG_SESSION_ID': 'c3', 'XDG_RUNTIME_DIR': '/run/user/1000', 'XDG_DATA_DIRS': '/home/user/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share', 'PATH': '/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games', 'GDK_DISABLE': 'gl vulkan', 'DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS': 'unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus', 'GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE_PID': '956', 'GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE': '/usr/share/applications/xfce4-terminal.desktop', 'QT_X11_NO_MITSHM': '1', '_': '/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/bin/python3.12', 'OLDPWD': '/home/user/sandbox'})|
17:02:04,338 root DEBUG user|user|
17:02:04,338 root DEBUG sys.argv|['src/main.py']|
17:02:04,338 root DEBUG sys.builtin_modules_names|('_abc', '_ast', '_codecs', '_collections', '_functools', '_imp', '_io', '_locale', '_operator', '_signal', '_sre', '_stat', '_string', '_symtable', '_thread', '_tokenize', '_tracemalloc', '_typing', '_warnings', '_weakref', 'atexit', 'builtins', 'errno', 'faulthandler', 'gc', 'itertools', 'marshal', 'posix', 'pwd', 'sys', 'time')|
17:02:04,338 root DEBUG sys.executable|/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/bin/python3.12|
17:02:04,338 root DEBUG sys.path|['/home/user/sandbox/buskill-app/src', '/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python312.zip', '/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12', '/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/lib-dynload', '/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages']|
17:02:04,338 root DEBUG sys.prefix|/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12|
17:02:04,338 root DEBUG sys.version|3.12.2 (main, Feb  8 2024, 18:54:41) [GCC 10.2.1 20210130 (Red Hat 10.2.1-11)]|
17:02:04,339 root DEBUG sys.api_version|1013|
17:02:04,339 root DEBUG sys.version_info|sys.version_info(major=3, minor=12, micro=2, releaselevel='final', serial=0)|
17:02:04,339 root DEBUG __name__|__main__|
17:02:04,339 root DEBUG sys.platform|linux|
17:02:04,340 root DEBUG platform.platform()|Linux-6.18.31-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.36|
17:02:04,340 root DEBUG platform.system()|Linux|
17:02:04,340 root DEBUG platform.release()|6.18.31-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64|
17:02:04,340 root DEBUG platform.version()|#1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue May 19 01:33:39 GMT 2026|
17:02:04,340 root DEBUG platform.machine()|x86_64|
17:02:04,340 root DEBUG PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="12"
VERSION="12 (bookworm)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

17:02:04,340 root DEBUG uid|1000|
17:02:04,340 root DEBUG group|grp.struct_group(gr_name='user', gr_passwd='x', gr_gid=1000, gr_mem=[])|
17:02:04,340 root DEBUG gid|1000|
17:02:04,340 root INFO buskill version {'VERSION': '', 'GITHUB_REF': '', 'GITHUB_SHA': '', 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH': ''}
17:02:04,340 packages.buskill DEBUG DEBUG: EXECUTED_AS_SCRIPT:|True|
DEBUG: EXE_PATH:|/home/user/sandbox/buskill-app/src/main.py|
DEBUG: EXE_DIR:|/home/user/sandbox/buskill-app/src|
DEBUG: EXE_FILE:|main.py|
DEBUG: APP_DIR:|/home/user/sandbox/buskill-app|
DEBUG: APPS_DIR:|/home/user/sandbox|
DEBUG: SRC_DIR:|/home/user/sandbox/buskill-app/src|
DEBUG: os.environ['PATH']:|/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/home/user/sandbox/buskill-app/src:/home/user/sandbox/buskill-app|

17:02:04,341 packages.buskill INFO INFO: using DATA_DIR:|/home/user/.local/share/.buskill|
17:02:04,341 packages.buskill DEBUG DEBUG: CONF_FILE:|/home/user/.local/share/.buskill/config.ini|

17:02:04,346 kivy WARNING Config: Older configuration version detected (0 instead of 27)
17:02:04,346 kivy WARNING Config: Upgrading configuration in progress.
17:02:04,346 kivy DEBUG Config: Upgrading from 0 to 1
17:02:04,347 kivy INFO Kivy: v2.3.0
17:02:04,347 kivy INFO Logger: Record log in /home/user/.local/share/.buskill/logs/kivy_26-06-02_6.txt
17:02:04,347 kivy INFO Kivy: Installed at "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kivy/__init__.py"
17:02:04,347 kivy INFO Python: v3.12.2 (main, Feb  8 2024, 18:54:41) [GCC 10.2.1 20210130 (Red Hat 10.2.1-11)]
17:02:04,347 kivy INFO Python: Interpreter at "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/bin/python3.12"
17:02:04,348 kivy INFO Logger: Purge log fired. Processing...
17:02:04,348 kivy INFO Logger: Purge finished!
17:02:04,366 kivy INFO Factory: 195 symbols loaded
17:02:04,380 kivy INFO Image: Providers: img_tex, img_dds, img_sdl2 (img_pil, img_ffpyplayer ignored)
17:02:04,494 kivy INFO Window: Provider: sdl2
17:02:04,641 kivy INFO GL: Using the "OpenGL" graphics system
17:02:04,641 kivy INFO GL: Backend used <sdl2>
17:02:04,641 kivy INFO GL: OpenGL version <b'4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.3.6'>
17:02:04,641 kivy INFO GL: OpenGL vendor <b'Mesa/X.org'>
17:02:04,641 kivy INFO GL: OpenGL renderer <b'llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.6, 256 bits)'>
17:02:04,641 kivy INFO GL: OpenGL parsed version: 4, 5
17:02:04,642 kivy INFO GL: Shading version <b'4.50'>
17:02:04,642 kivy INFO GL: Texture max size <16384>
17:02:04,642 kivy INFO GL: Texture max units <32>
17:02:04,653 kivy INFO Window: auto add sdl2 input provider
17:02:04,654 kivy INFO Window: virtual keyboard not allowed, single mode, not docked
17:02:04,659 kivy INFO Text: Provider: sdl2
17:02:04,662 kivy INFO Clipboard: Provider: xclip
17:02:04,662 kivy INFO CutBuffer: cut buffer support enabled
17:02:04,713 buskill_gui DEBUG DEBUG: font_dirs:|['/usr/share/fonts', '/usr/share/fonts/X11', '/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc', '/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1', '/usr/share/fonts/X11/util', '/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi', '/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi', '/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings', '/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large', '/usr/share/fonts/woff', '/usr/share/fonts/woff/ebgaramond', '/usr/share/fonts/type1', '/usr/share/fonts/type1/texlive-fonts-recommended', '/usr/share/fonts/type1/urw-base35', '/usr/share/fonts/fonts-go', '/usr/share/fonts/cmap', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/font-awesome', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/olga', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/neohellenic', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/stix-word', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/linux-libertine', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/ebgaramond', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/didot', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/cabin', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/lobstertwo', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/stix', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/solomos', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/inter', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/asana-math', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/artemisia', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/complutum', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/roboto', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/roboto/slab', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/freefont', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/lobster', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/urw-base35', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/junicode', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/comic-neue', '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/cantarell', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/font-awesome', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/libreoffice', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/clear-sans', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/adf', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/quicksand', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/andika', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/droid', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/crosextra', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ebgaramond', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/comfortaa', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/croscore', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/gentiumplus-compact', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ancient-scripts', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation2', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/gentium-basic', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/gentium', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/roboto', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/roboto/unhinted', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/roboto/unhinted/RobotoTTF', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/charis', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/lyx', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/paratype', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/lato', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/gentiumplus', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/open-sans', '/usr/share/fonts/cMap', '/usr/local/share/fonts', '/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kivy/data/fonts', '/home/user/sandbox/buskill-app']|
17:02:04,713 buskill_gui DEBUG DEBUG: Found 2898 font files.
17:02:04,713 buskill_gui DEBUG DEBUG: Default font = ['Roboto', 'data/fonts/Roboto-Regular.ttf', 'data/fonts/Roboto-Italic.ttf', 'data/fonts/Roboto-Bold.ttf', 'data/fonts/Roboto-BoldItalic.ttf']
17:02:04,713 buskill_gui DEBUG DEBUG: attempt to load bkmono from:|fonts/RobotoMono-Regular.ttf|
17:02:04,714 buskill_gui DEBUG DEBUG: attempt to load mdicons from:|fonts/MaterialIcons-Regular.ttf|
17:02:04,806 kivy WARNING Deprecated property "<BooleanProperty name=allow_stretch>" of object "<kivy.uix.image.Image object at 0x7473bdb4b150>" was accessed, it will be removed in a future version
17:02:04,806 kivy WARNING Deprecated property "<BooleanProperty name=keep_ratio>" of object "<kivy.uix.image.Image object at 0x7473bdb4b150>" was accessed, it will be removed in a future version
17:02:04,807 kivy INFO GL: NPOT texture support is available
17:02:04,832 buskill_gui DEBUG DEBUG: adding screen:|<Screen name='main'>|
17:02:04,832 buskill_gui DEBUG DEBUG: User switched to 'MainWindow' screen
17:02:04,832 buskill_gui DEBUG DEBUG: adding screen:|<Screen name='debug_log'>|
17:02:04,833 buskill_gui DEBUG DEBUG: adding screen:|<Screen name='settings'>|
17:02:04,836 kivy INFO Base: Start application main loop
17:02:04,859 kivy INFO GL: Unpack subimage support is available
17:02:20,803 buskill_gui DEBUG DEBUG: User switched to 'Settings' screen
17:02:49,801 buskill_gui DEBUG DEBUG: User initiated settings reset
17:02:58,483 kivy INFO Base: Leaving application in progress...
17:02:58,483 kivy WARNING stderr: Traceback (most recent call last):
17:02:58,483 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/configparser.py", line 767, in get
17:02:58,484 kivy WARNING stderr:     value = d[option]
17:02:58,484 kivy WARNING stderr:             ~^^^^^^^^
17:02:58,484 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/collections/__init__.py", line 1014, in __getitem__
17:02:58,485 kivy WARNING stderr:     return self.__missing__(key)            # support subclasses that define __missing__
17:02:58,485 kivy WARNING stderr:            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
17:02:58,485 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/collections/__init__.py", line 1006, in __missing__
17:02:58,486 kivy WARNING stderr:     raise KeyError(key)
17:02:58,486 kivy WARNING stderr: KeyError: 'keyboard_mode'
17:02:58,486 kivy WARNING stderr: 
17:02:58,486 kivy WARNING stderr: During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
17:02:58,486 kivy WARNING stderr: 
17:02:58,487 kivy WARNING stderr: Traceback (most recent call last):
17:02:58,487 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/sandbox/buskill-app/src/main.py", line 182, in <module>
17:02:58,487 kivy WARNING stderr:     BusKillApp( bk ).run()
17:02:58,487 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kivy/app.py", line 956, in run
17:02:58,488 kivy WARNING stderr:     runTouchApp()
17:02:58,488 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kivy/base.py", line 574, in runTouchApp
17:02:58,488 kivy WARNING stderr:     EventLoop.mainloop()
17:02:58,488 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kivy/base.py", line 339, in mainloop
17:02:58,489 kivy WARNING stderr:     self.idle()
17:02:58,489 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kivy/base.py", line 383, in idle
17:02:58,489 kivy WARNING stderr:     self.dispatch_input()
17:02:58,489 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kivy/base.py", line 334, in dispatch_input
17:02:58,490 kivy WARNING stderr:     post_dispatch_input(*pop(0))
17:02:58,490 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kivy/base.py", line 263, in post_dispatch_input
17:02:58,490 kivy WARNING stderr:     listener.dispatch('on_motion', etype, me)
17:02:58,490 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "kivy/_event.pyx", line 731, in kivy._event.EventDispatcher.dispatch
17:02:58,490 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kivy/core/window/__init__.py", line 1707, in on_motion
17:02:58,491 kivy WARNING stderr:     self.transform_motion_event_2d(me)
17:02:58,491 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kivy/core/window/__init__.py", line 1640, in transform_motion_event_2d
17:02:58,492 kivy WARNING stderr:     kheight=self.keyboard_height
17:02:58,492 kivy WARNING stderr:             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
17:02:58,492 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "kivy/properties.pyx", line 531, in kivy.properties.Property.__get__
17:02:58,492 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "kivy/properties.pyx", line 1658, in kivy.properties.AliasProperty.get
17:02:58,492 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kivy/core/window/__init__.py", line 686, in _get_kheight
17:02:58,493 kivy WARNING stderr:     return self._get_kivy_vkheight()
17:02:58,493 kivy WARNING stderr:            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
17:02:58,493 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kivy/core/window/__init__.py", line 664, in _get_kivy_vkheight
17:02:58,494 kivy WARNING stderr:     mode = Config.get('kivy', 'keyboard_mode')
17:02:58,494 kivy WARNING stderr:            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
17:02:58,494 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kivy/config.py", line 541, in get
17:02:58,495 kivy WARNING stderr:     value = PythonConfigParser.get(self, section, option, **kwargs)
17:02:58,495 kivy WARNING stderr:             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
17:02:58,495 kivy WARNING stderr:   File "/home/user/kivy_appdir/opt/python3.12/lib/python3.12/configparser.py", line 770, in get
17:02:58,496 kivy WARNING stderr:     raise NoOptionError(option, section)
17:02:58,496 kivy WARNING stderr: configparser.NoOptionError: No option 'keyboard_mode' in section: 'kivy'
17:02:58,497 kivy WARNING stderr: [INFO/MainProcess] process shutting down
17:02:58,497 kivy WARNING stderr: [DEBUG/MainProcess] running all "atexit" finalizers with priority >= 0
17:02:58,497 kivy WARNING stderr: [DEBUG/MainProcess] running the remaining "atexit" finalizers
user@buskill:~/sandbox/buskill-app$ 

[maltfield]

This, sadly, doesn't look like our error. It's an error in kivy's config file -- specifically for a key named keyboard_mode.

Note that this never appears to have a value. Here's what we have before the execution:

user@buskill:~/sandbox/buskill-app$ grep keyboard_mode ~/.local/share/.buskill/config.ini
grep: /home/user/.local/share/.buskill/config.ini: No such file or directory
user@buskill:~/sandbox/buskill-app$ 

Here's what we have when we first launch the app

user@buskill:~/sandbox/buskill-app$ grep keyboard_mode ~/.local/share/.buskill/config.ini
keyboard_mode = 
user@buskill:~/sandbox/buskill-app$ 

And here's what we have after we click the Erase Settings button:

user@buskill:~/sandbox/buskill-app$ grep keyboard_mode ~/.local/share/.buskill/config.ini
user@buskill:~/sandbox/buskill-app$ 

Oh, interesting. So I guess the difference is that it's being defined as empty vs not being defined at all.

Probably we need to call some sort of kivy config init function which will setup all these default config files -- or we have to make them ourselves if we can't find it.

TODO: see if I can find the right kivy function for initially creating the default values of the config file

[maltfield]

So it looks like I'm already attempting to fix this by calling build_config

buskill-app/src/buskill_gui.py

Lines 1026 to 1049 in 441578c

	# called when the user confirms they want to reset their settings
	def reset_defaults2(self):
	msg = "DEBUG: User initiated settings reset"
	print( msg ); logger.debug( msg )
	# close the dialog if it's already opened
	if self.dialog != None:
	self.dialog.dismiss()
	# delete all the options saved to the config file
	sections = ['kivy','buskill']
	for section in sections:
	for key in Config[section]:
	try:
	Config.remove_option( section, key )
	except Exception as e:
	msg = "DEBUG: Skipped reset of key. (" +str(e) + ")"
	print( msg ); logger.debug( msg )
	# save the changes to the .ini config file
	Config.write()
	# setup the defaults again to avoid configparser.NoOptionError
	self.root_app.build_config(Config)

Here's the contents of buskill_gui.py:build_config()

buskill-app/src/buskill_gui.py

Lines 1406 to 1425 in 441578c

	def build_config(self, config):
	Config.read( self.bk.CONF_FILE )
	Config.setdefaults('buskill', {
	'buskill_trigger': 'lock-screen',
	})
	# TODO: don't hard-code this, pull it from kivy/config.py
	# * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78216476/how-to-get-kivy-to-set-its-defaults-in-the-config-at-runtime
	Config.setdefault('kivy', 'default_font', [
	'Roboto',
	'data/fonts/Roboto-Regular.ttf',
	'data/fonts/Roboto-Italic.ttf',
	'data/fonts/Roboto-Bold.ttf',
	'data/fonts/Roboto-BoldItalic.ttf']
	)
	Config.set('kivy', 'exit_on_escape', '0')
	Config.set('input', 'mouse', 'mouse,multitouch_on_demand')
	Config.write()

So I'm manually setting things in the [kivy] section like exit_on_escape and mouse, but I think those are my customizations. I need something first that'll do a general initalization of the kivy settings in the confg file

[maltfield]

It looks like what I'm looking for is in the config.py file

First, it looks like we're pinned to git commit 9ef218027178115a66b417ae34b21f488bdd3617

user@buskill:~/kivy_appdir/opt$ cat python3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kivy/_version.py 
# This file is imported from __init__.py and exec'd from setup.py

MAJOR = 2
MINOR = 3
MICRO = 0
RELEASE = True

__version__ = '%d.%d.%d' % (MAJOR, MINOR, MICRO)

if not RELEASE:
    # if it's a rcx release, it's not proceeded by a period. If it is a
    # devx release, it must start with a period
    __version__ += ''


_kivy_git_hash = '9ef218027178115a66b417ae34b21f488bdd3617'
_kivy_build_date = '20240105'
user@buskill:~/kivy_appdir/opt$ 

ok, so that's here on github

• https://github.com/kivy/kivy/tree/9ef218027178115a66b417ae34b21f488bdd3617

And the relevant section from the relevant file from the relevant commit:

https://github.com/kivy/kivy/blob/9ef218027178115a66b417ae34b21f488bdd3617/kivy/config.py#L731-L1004

That's just, like, at the root of the file. It's not in a function. How do we call it from our code?

[maltfield]

I confirmed by manually editing the function of the kivy package's config.py file that this code is executed when the following command is executed

>>> from kivy.config import Config
==YOU FOUND ME! IM NOW SETTING UP THE DEFAULT KIVY CONFIG==

Unfortunately, I'm unable to make it run again because doing from X import Y a second time is a no-op in python

>>> from kivy.config import Config 
>>> 

TODO: figure out how to force python to run from X import Y a second time.

[maltfield]

See also:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79950555/how-to-force-re-import-of-from-x-import-y-statement-in-python

[maltfield]

I was able to do this with

import importlib; importlib.reload( kivy.config )