[Spulit]

Hi,

Is it possible to have XBMC Live to start the window manager (Fluxbox) silently alongside XBMC? I'm developing a new script and I need to take advantage of having more than one workspace. Of course, I still want XBMC startup as it is now, ie, I don't want the user to notice that the window manager is being loaded.

Thanks

[outleradam]

I don't know why you would want to start a graphical interface without interaction from the user... That's the point of a graphical interface, to interact with the user.

One way of doing this would be to start a VNC session (tightvncserver), then set environmental variable DISPLAY=:1, then xinit yourApplication. This would require you to first apt-get install tightvncserver, then run tightvncserver to set the password the first time. After initial setup, tightvncserver can be run to create additional desktop interfaces. They are open for access from other computers using the password.

[topfs2]

Hi,

Is it possible to have XBMC Live to start the window manager (Fluxbox) silently alongside XBMC? I'm developing a new script and I need to take advantage of having more than one workspace. Of course, I still want XBMC startup as it is now, ie, I don't want the user to notice that the window manager is being loaded.

Thanks

I'm guessing you want to use this in a more desktop enviornment with keyboard and such?

You might want to checkout the xbmc-live script, should be doable adding fluxbox there if you want. I know we have had fluxbox available before (as a recovery mode).

At any rate, might be simpler going the other way around, installing ubuntu server or minimal, add fluxbox and xbmc and start xbmc with fluxbox.

[Spulit]

OK, I found out a way. I was just a matter of editing the files /usr/bin/startfluxbox and /usr/bin/runXBMC in order to have XBMC Live to silently start fluxbox and then XBMC. I also needed to edit the fluxbox style file in order to comment out the "background" entried and also the ~/.fluxbox/init file to hide the toolbar.

Thanks!

[deadland]

@Spulit: It would be great, if you could post what you exactly changed in the mentioned files, since I would like to do the same.

Thanks!

[Spulit]

In /usr/bin/startfluxbox, I added:

/usr/bin/xbmc --standalone &
after
# idesk &

In /usr/bin/runXBMC, I commented out everything from:
echo "#!/bin/bash" > /home/$xbmcUser/.xsession
to
chown $xbmcUser:$xbmcUser /home/$xbmcUser/.xsession

In ~/.fluxbox/init, I added:
session.screen0.toolbar.visible: false

Remember to delete the ~/.xsession file before restarting.

[deadland]

Thank you very much. I will try it as soon as I can.

[linuxrookie]

Hi, everyone,

I was really interested in this kind of solution and these lines were quite helpful. But it didn't work at first try so I started modifiying the lines.

Instead of editing /usr/bin/startfluxbox, I modified ~/.fluxbox/startup as mentioned below. That means I added

/usr/bin/xbmc --standalone &
after
# idesk &

Next I edited /usr/bin/runXBMC as described (but I would try if it is really necessary).

And I leave ~/.fluxbox/init as it is because I find it helpful to have a toolbar in fluxbox and for XBMC in fullscreen-mode it is irrelevant.

Last but not least I deleted the ~/.xsession file.

Now it's quite comfortable: When the computer is powered up it will automatically starts XBMC in fullscreen. If I need e.g. a webbrowser I simple push (on a german keyboard) <alt gr> + <ß> and XBMC toggle into window-mode and I'm able to switch to another desktop.

Thank You for Your tipps,
A Linuxrookie

[BiX82]

Works great.

But how can I change the DPI settings?
If I set "Xft.dpi: 150" in ~/.xdefault and merge it in ~/.xinitrc, I can't login anymore. There is an endless loop at login tty1. And I have to reinstall the system again because I don't know how to fix it. Undo the changes have no effect.

[gsgleason]

Works great.

But how can I change the DPI settings?
If I set "Xft.dpi: 150" in ~/.xdefault and merge it in ~/.xinitrc, I can't login anymore. There is an endless loop at login tty1. And I have to reinstall the system again because I don't know how to fix it. Undo the changes have no effect.

perhaps you can SSH to the box during the looping.

[BiX82]

Got it now:
I set the dpi in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the section "Device" with Option "DPI" "150x150".
Cheers