[Rodnheli]

hello!

my first post but reading here in this forum for a long time...

i installed XBMC-pvr-testing2 with VDR / VNSI on Xubuntu 10.04.
now it seems, that all works perfect, but i don't want to start desktop environment in xubuntu and then autostart xbmc.

how it's possible to avoid starting desktop environment in ubuntu and direct start XBMC? like in xbmc-live...
furthermore i should have the possibiltiy to come back into bash (strg+alt+F2??) end then start the desktop environment - if needed...

tried the search, but as an linux noob, wrong search phrases could have been the problem...

thanks for your help!!

rodnheli

[harryzimm]

Hi,

Download "xbmc-standalone", then choose xbmc as session at the login screen.

cheers

[d1ddyp0p]

Depending on what distro your running, check the forums. For Ubuntu, there are lots of guides written. One option is to install the minimal Ubuntu installation on a machine....and then install XBMC....and use a script to make it auto boot by putting it in 'init.d'..... there is information on how to do this on the Wiki

[rikardo1979]

you can have a look here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=86404
or there is many more info here on forum

[Rodnheli]

thanks for your replies!

took this guidance: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=53812 for autologin and changed some pathes to fit for ubuntu 10.04 (/event.d/tty1 to /init/tty1.conf)

to avoid starting xfce-desktop i had to rename /etc/init/gdm.conf into "gdm.conf.noexec". because "GDM" was already disabled in rcconf but xfce desktop started anyway.

regards,
rodnheli