Not sure about mpv, but I use a gstreamer pipeline to tender cameras to the raw KMS terminal display. It works much more reliably (I.e. Predictable loading times and no stutter) compared to loading a DE first. Noting that it was on a low power RPI.

You need to get little bud a new shirts every few months with an extra spiderman pointing each time!

Ive been using Lynx Launcher. I wanted something quick, simple, effective, and this was it.

Luckily, someone has got an actual solution. Check out WindHawk. I use it to run a vertical taskbar.

I’ll admit, I haven’t looked at the code. I would stand by my comment of the unsafe block being a start point.

Countering that however, what is the difference to just debugging effectively? Not sure. I suppose it’s down to the people that identified it and fixed it at the end of the day to say if there was any benefit.

I think the other takeaway here is that it was found in a section marked “unsafe”. At the very least, that’s a useful tool for the Devs to isolate potential problem areas. Comparing that to a pure C codebase where the problem could be anywhere.

What is the wm and bar setup you have?

Puppy Linux might be an option if that project is still going.

We have similar kinda of boxes in Australia, usually they are monitoring stations for the energy infrastructure provider. Can be cellular or long range radio links.

The reality is that a bootloader will seemingly always be needed to account for difficult BIOS’ and legacy setups (I’m looking at you, dual-booted Ubuntu 20.04).

Start using and efistub and never worry about boot loaders again!