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I'll second the request for an integrated feature. I have my computer hooked up to two different TVs in two different rooms with extended displays. When XBMC minimizes on my living room screen, I have to go to the other room, turn the TV on, then re-maximize it. I have to use extended displays because WMC requires it for recording TV...
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Lol I got banned for pointing out a never ending problem, XBMC going that path where its best to ban people then to listen to there customers?
I did really switch from an AMD system to an Intel system trying to get rid of the problem, it was not a lie or anything just expansive and gave me a ban aswell, hahaha.
I can inform that the full window mode will give tears in the movie picture when the picture got fast moving objects and if you care for the movie quality you must use the full screen mode and then XBMC loose focus on some systems. soo Using full windows mode is not an option, atleast not for built in CPU GFX solutions.
Guess they ban me again, I guess I should just give up about this problem cos there is nothing wrong with XBMC.
And people that dot'n have English as there native end up alot more hard as they wanted, but who cares better ban then listen to what people try to tell ya?.
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Hi everyone,
I have the same problem as Fableman. I set the true fullscreen mode but everytime i have a fu**** pop-up like windows update or anything else, xbmc is reduce in taskbar ! No idea of what to do...
Thanks
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This is a feature of the Windows DirectX system. Until you can kidnap Bill gates and force him to change it, the only solution is to use windowed fullscreen, but depending on your video card you may see video degradation.
The best option is to look at what you have installed and remove anything that produces unnecessary pop-ups, or at least configure it not to display pop-ups.
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digitaltomj a tool like that (or an instruction) should be packaged in XBMC since it is neccesary for a good working media center.... my opinion :-)
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FocusBitch (wiki) is so cool we gave it a page on the XBMC Wiki. Feel free to update it with whatever info you want.
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I'm using the following autohotkey script to start xbmc and keep it in focus. This works like a charm and no window can steal the display as long as the script is working. Save this script to your startup folder.
#NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
#Warn ; Recommended for catching common errors.
SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
#SingleInstance ignore ; use only one instance of the app
#!Enter:: ; Add a hotkey to start xbmc using Ctrl+Alt+Enter. Useful for the mce green button.
Process, Exist, xbmc.exe ; check to see if xbmc.exe is running
If (ErrorLevel = 0) ; if xbmc is not running
{
run "c:\program files\xbmc\xbmc.exe" ; start xbmc
}
else
{
traytip, Message, xbmc is already running, 5, 1 ; if xbmc is already running then show a balloon message. For debugging only. You can comment out or delete this line.
}
loop ; continously checks whether xbmc is on focus
{
Process, Exist, xbmc.exe ; check to see if xbmc.exe is running
WinActivate, ahk_class XBMC
;sleep 1000 ; time delay between check. If commented out, the script will continuously keep xbmc on top.
}
return
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Thanks for FocusBitch. Worked great.