Add run-on-frame.sh to launch apps on the headset desktop

Borrows the nested Plasma session's display and D-Bus variables from
plasmashell and starts the app detached. Tested on the Frame: error paths,
argument quoting, ~ expansion, and `mac-screen` opening a VNC connection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| `scripts/connect.sh` | Mac | Discover, set up key and `~/.ssh/config`, copy key, optional `--harden` (**verified**; `--harden` untested) |
| `scripts/install-apps.sh` | Mac → Frame | Install Flatpaks (Remmina, Moonlight, …) on the Frame over SSH as `--user` (**verified** with Remmina) |
| `scripts/paste-to-frame.sh` | Mac → Frame | Send the Mac clipboard (or stdin) to the Frame clipboard (**verified**) |
| `scripts/install-apk.sh` | Mac → Frame | Install APKs into Lepton with ADB tunnelled over SSH; starts Lepton Development if needed (**verified**; see [docs/apks.md](docs/apks.md) for app compatibility) |
| `scripts/run-on-frame.sh` | Mac → Frame | Start an app on the headset desktop, e.g. `mac-screen` opens Remmina straight into the Mac (**verified**) |
| `scripts/push.sh` | Mac → Frame | `rsync` files to `~/Downloads` (or a given path) on the Frame (**verified**) |
| `scripts/serve-bootstrap.sh` | Mac | Fallback: serve `bootstrap-on-frame.sh` with your public key embedded |
| `scripts/bootstrap-on-frame.sh` | Frame | Fallback: install the key and enable `sshd` |
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#!/usr/bin/env zsh
# Mac-side: start a GUI app on the Steam Frame's in-headset desktop over SSH.
#
# The headset desktop is a nested Plasma session inside gamescope with its own
# runtime dir, Wayland socket, X display and D-Bus bus (verified 2026-09-25), so
# a plain `ssh frame some-app` can't find it. This copies those variables from
# plasmashell's environment, then starts the app detached so it outlives SSH.
#
# Usage:
# scripts/run-on-frame.sh remmina # Remmina main window
# scripts/run-on-frame.sh mac-screen # Remmina straight into the Mac profile
# scripts/run-on-frame.sh org.example.App [ARGS...] # any installed Flatpak
# scripts/run-on-frame.sh -- COMMAND [ARGS...] # any command on the Frame
#
# A leading "~/" in any argument is expanded on the Frame.
set -euo pipefail
FRAME_ALIAS=${FRAME_ALIAS:-frame}
REMMINA_PROFILE="~/.var/app/org.remmina.Remmina/data/remmina/mac-screen-sharing.remmina"
case "${1:-}" in
""|-h|--help) sed -n '2,15p' "$0"; exit 0 ;;
remmina) cmd=(flatpak run org.remmina.Remmina) ;;
mac-screen) cmd=(flatpak run org.remmina.Remmina -c "$REMMINA_PROFILE") ;;
--) shift; (( $# )) || { print -u2 "run-on-frame: missing command after --"; exit 2; }
cmd=("$@") ;;
*)
if [[ "$1" =~ '^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+(\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]+){2,}$' ]]; then
cmd=(flatpak run "$@")
else
print -u2 "run-on-frame: unknown app '$1' (use a Flatpak app ID, or -- COMMAND)"
exit 2
fi ;;
esac
# Runs on the Frame with the command as "$@".
remote=$(cat <<'EOF'
set -u
pid=$(pgrep -u "$(id -u)" -x plasmashell | head -n 1)
if [ -z "$pid" ]; then
echo "plasmashell is not running: open the desktop in the headset first." >&2
exit 2
fi
while IFS= read -r -d '' kv; do
case "$kv" in
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=*|XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=*|DISPLAY=*|XAUTHORITY=*|DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=*|\
XDG_DATA_DIRS=*|XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=*|XDG_SESSION_TYPE=*) export "$kv" ;;
esac
done < "/proc/$pid/environ"
args=()
for a in "$@"; do
case "$a" in "~/"*) a="$HOME/${a#\~/}" ;; esac
args+=("$a")
done
log=$(mktemp /tmp/run-on-frame.XXXXXX)
setsid nohup "${args[@]}" > "$log" 2>&1 < /dev/null &
child=$!
sleep 3
if kill -0 "$child" 2>/dev/null; then
echo "started: ${args[*]} (pid $child, log $log)"
elif wait "$child"; then
# Single-instance apps (e.g. Remmina) hand off to the running copy and exit 0.
echo "done: ${args[*]} (exited 0; single-instance apps hand off to the running copy)"
rm -f "$log"
else
rc=$?
echo "failed: ${args[*]} (exit $rc). Log:" >&2
tail -n 20 "$log" >&2
exit 1
fi
EOF
)
b64=$(print -rn -- "$remote" | base64)
ssh "$FRAME_ALIAS" "bash -c \"\$(echo $b64 | base64 -d)\" run-on-frame ${(j: :)${(@q)cmd}}"