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Pipe media file on samba share to mplayer

add -rootwin to make it cover the whole desktop. This may work better than mounting it as a cifs mount.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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smbget -u username -p passw0rd -w domain_or_workgroup //server/share/mediafile.ogv -O - | mplayer -

dizzi90 · 2014-02-16 21:42:06 8
Get windows IPv4 and nothing else

May be useful to get user's ip address over the phone, as users struggle to read through a long ipconfig result. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . :w.x.y.z
```
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cls && ipconfig | find "IPv4"

dizzi90 · 2013-12-03 13:08:01 10
highest resolution of your ouputs as screen resolution and scaled versions on other outputs

Run a xrandr -q to get resolutions of displays. Put top resolution after --fb Divide top resolution by each display's resolution to get scale. Works for projectors, for instance.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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xrandr --fb 1920x1080 --output LVDS1 --scale 1.5x1.35 --output HDMI1 --mode 1920x1080

dizzi90 · 2013-10-23 22:25:30 7

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