Five defects from #245, all found by a user on a Pi 5 because nothing in this
repo has ever executed either of these scripts.
THE MENU IGNORED THE OPERATOR.
The documented install is `curl … | sudo bash`, which makes stdin the SCRIPT.
bash has consumed it by the time any `read` runs, so every prompt got EOF
instantly: the mode menu "chose" All-in-One without anyone touching it, and
Player-Only could not be reached that way at all. Reported as the menu being
skipped, because it was. Prompts now read the controlling terminal, and when
there genuinely is no terminal the script SAYS which way it went instead of
letting an empty answer look like a decision.
X11 TOOLS ON A WAYLAND PI.
Pi 5 on Bookworm defaults to Wayland, where xset, unclutter and xrandr are
no-ops that log an error and do nothing. The Pi therefore got no blanking
suppression and no cursor hiding while looking configured. The launcher now
detects the session and branches: X11 keeps what it had, Wayland gets wlopm and
--ozone-platform=wayland, and the compositor-side alternatives are documented
rather than silently assumed.
THE KEYRING PROMPT.
"Choose password for keyring" on every boot is Chromium reaching for
gnome-keyring. A kiosk has nobody to answer it. --password-store=basic.
THE WHITE PAGE ON EVERY BOOT BUT THE FIRST.
Chromium restoring a session it believes crashed — a kiosk is killed by
shutdown and never exits cleanly, so it returns with a restore surface over the
player. That is why ALT+F4 "fixed" it: it closed the surface, not the player.
Rewriting exited_cleanly was never enough on its own because the previous window
set is replayed from Sessions/, so that goes too.
THE BANNER SPELLED THE PRODUCT WRONG.
The ASCII art read "Scree Tinker" — the n was missing, and it is the first thing
anyone sees over SSH.
Also answered the reporter's Overlay FS question in the README, including the
part that bites: an All-in-One Pi IS the server, so an overlay discards the
database, uploads and JWT secret at every reboot. Safe for Player-Only; needs
DATA_DIR moved off the overlay otherwise.
The new test generates the kiosk launcher exactly as the installer writes it and
runs bash -n over it, because `bash -n` on the outer script cannot see inside a
heredoc — a syntax error in there is just text until it reaches a screen.
Reported-by: carloblu74
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014skWYXJUWhF73EvNPgB2AS
