fire up xrandr before playing on screen, should help recognize displays

[serve0] / actions / watch.sh

diff --git a/actions/watch.sh b/actions/watch.sh
index 60d29db336b26b9649b5078bf7a0a3aa81474ada..913e621374a33bd0301c25b07ec4cf2c73dc3962 100755 (executable)
--- a/actions/watch.sh
+++ b/actions/watch.sh
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ case "${_COOKIE[watch]}" in
     playmeta="${_DATA}/mplayer.meta"
     fifofile="${_DATA}/mplayer.fifo"
     statusfile="${_DATA}/mplayer.status"
+    statusfile="/tmp/mplayer.status"
     volume="$(validate "$(cat "${_DATA}/mplayer.volume")" '[1-9]?[0-9]|100' 20)"
     [ \! -p "$fifofile" ] && rm -f "$fifofile" && mkfifo -m 600 "$fifofile"
 
@@ -72,8 +73,9 @@ case "${_COOKIE[watch]}" in
     fi
 
     export DISPLAY=":0"
-    uid="$(id |sed -rn '1s;.*uid=([0-9]+)[^0-9].*;1;p')"
+    uid="$(id |sed -rn '1s;.*uid=([0-9]+)[^0-9].*;\1;p')"
     export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$uid"  # required for Pulseaudio
+    xrandr >/dev/null  # helps enable all screens
 
     nohup /usr/bin/mplayer -ao pulse \
       -slave -input file="$fifofile" \
@@ -86,6 +88,8 @@ case "${_COOKIE[watch]}" in
     #   --volume="$volume" \
     #   "$playuri" >"$statusfile" 2>/dev/null &
 
+    chmod 600 "$statusfile"
+
     redirect "?p=playctl&${watch_link}"
   ;;
   *) redirect "?p=view&${watch_link}"