I went ahead and installed the development version and it seems like it's fixed the issues I've been having. Thanks for the help!

@mitu said in Turning the screen off (again) and screensaver problems.:

You can log off the console user (the one on the tty1) and the auto-login will kick in and start EmulationStation again. An ugly workaround, to say the least.

I'd preffer not to do that, I was trying out some chatgpt suggestions and instead of logging in and starting ES, I was met with log-in screen for virtual terminal 0, and tty1 wasn't starting at all.
I had to "sudo apt remove --purge kmscon" to make it work again (after hour or two of debugging, I already wanted to reinstall everything) It seems that kmscon was hijacking the getty (I never heard of getty nor kmscon before so it was like an actual study doing it)

... well, I asked chatgpt about the "starting as NOT superuser problem", I tried out the first suggestion it gave and it actually works first try!

su - pi -c "setsid emulationstation < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2>&1 &"

I actually understand the linux stuff more now as this needs both "< /dev/tty1" and "> /dev tty1" (it didn't occur to me that you can do both!). It also needs setsid before running, it needs that weird "2>&1" in the end ... that's allegedly also doing something... ok... as long as it works! :D

Thanks for the help guys, I appreciate it a lot!

@sleve_mcdichael said in avoid or get rid of messages after scripts were executed:

/dev/null

the first one did the trick :)
thank you!!!
i ve been looking for a solution for a long time
and now this made my day

Did you try updating EmulationStation ? The current stable release is 2.11.2, while you're still on version 2.10.1 from almost 3 years ago.

@rfinnie I guess the min/max values are not a strict specification, thus I said "should". It depends on brand/model as I learned (mine Logitech Rumblepad and a knock-off Switch/XBox controller report in the "should" range).

On a tangent: The Arcade'81 looks nice and gives you at least enough space to add a subwoofer. I added an external subwoofer 6.5" later to my custom bartop which made the games even more fun to play. In any case: Happy tinkering!

But back to your initial request/idea. Maybe @pjft can comment on that, if a or which suggested change (see first post) would be accepted in the ES source tree.

@mitu Thanks for the reply to both of you.

It turns out, I had set my ui settings to detailed. I switched it over to video and made sure the theme I was using supported video and... bingo. all set.

@sleve_mcdichael That did it! Didn't realize there were additional entries we could've added. It now properly shows the "Sega Genesis" title on the screensaver for genesis/megadrive games. Thanks!

@sleve_mcdichael that is correct

It's a bug, but something that shouldn't affect many users since it wouldn't occur without this symlink loop. It's probably affecting also the reading of the ROM/game folders, which would make EmulationStation freeze on start-up in this kind of scenario.

@mitu You're right! Thank you very much.

@sleve_mcdichael Sorry but im brand new to using the retropie, so I am not sure how to get the log file, but ill try and do it now :)

Please add some info about your setup, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

What does 'crash' mean ? EmulationStation freezes (without accepting any input) or it crashes with an error do the command line ?

@GreenHawk84 which version of Emulationstation are you running?

There has been a corner case [1], which escaped my mind in the first place, but then has been corrected by @pjft .

If your ES is below 2.10 (which I assume):

Either update to 2.10 onwards If you don't want to update use this workaround: Edit your ~/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg while ES is not running and check the value of SlideshowScreenSaverCustomImageSource. Make it read false (you can also do it during ES is running in the Screensaver Options Menu).

Rationale: Your behaviour can happen on ES < 2.10 if you set your slideshow screensaver to use a custom image source and then switch to video screensaver (without disabling the image source flag).

Please report back if it solves your issue. And if it does, mark this topic with [solved] in your initial posting header.

[1] https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/commit/a8ccd0a75ba81b3e4af88ed3ebcfe08e57520ab6

@sleve_mcdichael said in Video slideshow has blank screen between some videos:

They're read from the gamelist, right? Or no?

Yes.

After this PR will be merged, it will be possible to use a separate folder for videos, just like for images, in the screensaver.

@sleve_mcdichael said in Bug: ES video screensaver game info aligned center regardless of setting:

See?

I don't, really. The alignment for subtitles is an OMX feature only - which is not supported by omxplayer anymore on the Pi4 - so there's little to do on the ES side here.