vlc
as vlc --fullscreen video.mp4
so that it goes straight to fullscreen mode and instantly plays, with no mouse needed. But I have two monitors and it seems to be a coin flip which one it'll fullscreen to. I'd much rather it go to my primary 1080p monitor rather than my 640x480 VGA that I got at a garage sale. :/vlc -H | less
) for words like screen
and display
but the only one option that seemed useful was --x11-display
and I'm not sure how to use it. Here's me experimenting with it, but all of the vlc
commands just caused it to show up on my active monitor (the secondary one).