dankserver/jellyfin/quadlet/jellyfin.container

@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ Volume=/home/dank/Containers/jellyfin/cache:/cache
 # is the guard: started against a plain, unmounted view directory a scan decides
 # the library is empty and deletes what it cannot see.
 Volume=/var/lib/media-meta/view:/data
+# Big-screen theme for the TV. The repo file replaces the container's "Media
+# Center" theme slot; the upstream dark palette stays live because the file
+# @imports it, so an image bump cannot strand a vendored CSS snapshot. Read-only
+# — the web app only fetches it. A client opts in with
+# Display Settings -> Theme -> "Media Center".
+Volume=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/dankserver/jellyfin/theme/wmc/theme.css:/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/themes/wmc/theme.css:ro
 AddDevice=/dev/dri
 GroupAdd=keep-groups
 HealthCmd=curl -f http://localhost:8096/health

dankserver/jellyfin/theme/wmc/theme.css

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+ * Dank fleet big-screen theme for jellyfin-web.
+ *
+ * Deployed by bind-mounting THIS file over the container's "Media Center"
+ * theme (`/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/themes/wmc/theme.css`) — see the Volume line
+ * in dankserver/jellyfin/quadlet/jellyfin.container. The slot is deliberately
+ * one nobody picks by accident, and its name is the only thing that changes:
+ * the colors are the live upstream dark theme, pulled in by @import below, so
+ * this file never vendors a snapshot of upstream CSS and cannot drift when the
+ * Jellyfin image moves.
+ *
+ * Why it exists: the living-room client (Jellyfin Desktop on danklivingroom)
+ * renders this server-served web app at 3840x2160 with no client-side scaling,
+ * so 14 px body text lands on a big panel viewed from three metres. `zoom` on
+ * the root element is the one lever that scales the whole UI — the layout code
+ * measures layout px, so card grids re-flow to fewer, larger columns instead of
+ * overflowing.
+ *
+ * Adoption is per device, not global: Display Settings -> Theme ->
+ * "Media Center" on the screen that wants it. That is the point — a phone
+ * browser on the same server must not get a 1.75x interface.
+ *
+ * Change the size by editing the single number. 1.5 is mild, 1.75 is the
+ * three-metre default, 2.0 is for a projector.
+ */
+
+@import url("../dark/theme.css");
+
+:root {
+  /* Marker the e2e gate reads back; also a tweak hook for a per-client
+     override injected by anyone who really wants one. */
+  --dank-big-screen: 1;
+  --dank-big-screen-zoom: 1.75;
+}
+
+html {
+  zoom: var(--dank-big-screen-zoom);
+}
+
+/* A remote moves focus in discrete jumps, so the ring has to survive a
+   three-metre read. */
+.emby-focus,
+button:focus-visible,
+a:focus-visible,
+.inputElement:focus-visible {
+  outline: 3px solid var(--accentColor, #00a4dc) !important;
+  outline-offset: 2px !important;
+}
+
+/* Scrollbars are mouse furniture; on a TV they are noise at this size. */
+* {
+  scrollbar-width: none;
+}

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Jellyfin.md

@@ -407,6 +407,41 @@ removed. Discover a route's verb from the `Allow` header of an `OPTIONS` (or
   Seerr keeps a key of its own in its own DB (which of its two rows it uses was
   never confirmed), so revoke by token and never by app name.
 
+## Big-screen theme (the TV)
+
+`dankserver/jellyfin/theme/wmc/theme.css` is repo-owned and bind-mounted over the
+image's **Media Center** theme slot (the `Volume=` line in
+`dankserver/jellyfin/quadlet/jellyfin.container`). It exists for
+`danklivingroom`, which renders this server-served web app at 3840×2160 with no
+client-side scaling, so 14 px text arrives on a panel read from three metres.
+
+The file is four rules, and its first line is the design:
+`@import url("../dark/theme.css")` pulls in the **live upstream** dark palette, so
+the repo never vendors a CSS snapshot and a Jellyfin image bump cannot strand one.
+That works because jellyfin-web applies a theme as
+`<link rel="stylesheet" href="themes/<id>/theme.css">` — a relative URL resolved
+against the CSS file, not the document. The size lives in one number:
+`--dank-big-screen-zoom` (1.75 ≈ three metres; 1.5 mild, 2.0 projector). `zoom` on
+the root element is the right lever: the card-grid code measures layout pixels, so
+fewer, larger columns are computed rather than overflow produced.
+
+- **Adoption is per device, and it stays that way.** The theme a client renders
+  comes from its own settings (localStorage first), so there is no server-side
+  "everyone gets the big UI" knob. On the screen that wants it:
+  **Display Settings → Theme → Media Center.** That is also the honest label —
+  the dropdown names are compiled into the bundle, so a "Big Screen" entry will
+  never appear; do not go looking for one.
+- The mount is `:ro` and the app only fetches the file, so the failure mode of a
+  stale `@import` target is slightly wrong colors, never a dead web app.
+- **Editing the CSS needs no restart.** The bind hands out the host file's live
+  bytes, so a changed zoom number is on screen at the next page load. The planner
+  agrees by construction: only `dankserver/<svc>/quadlet/**` maps to a service, so
+  a `theme/**`-only commit plans nothing — that is correct, not a gap to "fix",
+  because restarting a media server for a font size is the wrong trade. Only the
+  first deploy of the `Volume=` line restarts anything.
+- **Rollback is one line:** drop the `Volume=` and redeploy; nothing in the
+  database records the theme, so no cleanup follows.
+
 ## See Also
 
 - [[Plex]] — co-resident media server on the same volume