“turn on/off” with CEC turns on/off the TV.

But the scripts are linked to booting/shutdown and sleep/wake. So when you boot or wake the PC, the TV should turn on and when you poweroff or sleep, the TV should turn off.

You can wake the PC from sleep with a gamepad, if your motherboard supports wake with bluetooth or if you have an USB dongle and enable wake with USB from the specific port.

Booting the PC with a gamepad doesn’t work unfortunately. If you want to remotely turn on your PC, you can use wake-on-lan (most motherboards should support it but it’s rather complex) or boot on AC (again a motherboard option in UEFI, names may vary a bit) combined with a remote/wifi socket or a master/slave socket.

You can also bind the StartCEC and StopCEC scripts to keys. If your PC is turned on, you can then use the respective keys.

I actually thought about that, too. I looked at KDEconnect. But in the end, I wanted to add some gaming capabilities if I added a PC to the TV. But it’s great to hear that it works well :)

I’ll try to do a writeup.

No containers (I actually have zero experience with containers). But if you know how to use them, it should be possible.

I’m using autologin and sleep mostly. I don’t have to enter my password at any time (except when doing root stuff to install programs but not in everyday use). On boot, I do have to enter my disk encryption password.

You can autologin through some options in systemctl, but if you use standard DEs such as Gnome or KDE, there should be an option in the settings.

It was called moss dragon and I saved it maybe 10 years ago. Unfortunately, I don’t know the author or the website anymore. I hope it’s ok to still share.

I tried some of that too. But for most desktop environments, the gamepad wouldn’t work.

But great that it works for you. Nice thing about Linux :)

It’s simply connected by bluetooth or by dongle and Debian managed to do everything. Flex-launcher also supports it by default. I added some more key-combinations using input remapper such as closing programs, returning to launcher, changing volume.

I actually had some problems with input remapper on Debian and had to install the latest release (the one from the repository didn’t work).

I’m powering on/off the TV through CEC, see my reply above: https://programming.dev/post/50315130/23805655

Yeah, I’ve been looking/waiting for quite some time. hoping that a good solution would come along. I also tried Steam (big picture mode). But that still contains ads (for games) and is not that customizable. In the end, I’m really happy with flex-launcher.

I’ve switched away from most streaming services. For one month, I watched Netflix in the browser. It’s a lower resolution, but works ok. Mostly, I download stuff, which is publically available or use public broadcasts like Arte.