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RE: [RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within XBMC - teeedubb - 2014-04-03 (2014-03-25, 22:26)LSU Jonno Wrote: teeedub, I just tried xbmcbuntu 13 and its working for me within the lxde (xbmcbuntu) session, so if you are having troubles post a log. The Openbox session is disabled, to activte it you need to rename the openbox.desktop.dir file to openbox.desktop in /usr/share/xsessions. RE: [RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within XBMC - Zxurian - 2014-04-08 so trying to set this up with xbmcbuntu gotham beta2 and taking notes in preparation for a full reformat for xbmcbuntu gotham was able to follow your walkthrough up to the point of exiting xbmc and logging into openbox. Upon exiting XBMC, I do get bounced to a log in screen, but after logging in as my xbmc user, XBMC immediately runs again. any ideas? RE: [RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within XBMC - teeedubb - 2014-04-08 I had the same problem - you need to follow the exact instructions that are on the first page of the xbmcbuntu 13 beta thread. Also see the post above yours for activating openbox in xbmcbuntu 13, I haven't updated my xbmcbuntu guide yet RE: [RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within XBMC - Zxurian - 2014-04-09 (2014-04-08, 08:07)teeedubb Wrote: I had the same problem - you need to follow the exact instructions that are on the first page of the xbmcbuntu 13 beta thread. Also see the post above yours for activating openbox in xbmcbuntu 13, I haven't updated my xbmcbuntu guide yet Thanks for the information, I've been making some headway. I was able to get to the desktop per the post you pointed me to, and was able to get Steam to run. I'm stuck with 2 problems though 1) When I reboot, it goes straight to desktop instead of going to xbmc. I don't think I missed anything from your walkthrough, but I could be wrong. 2) if I run xbmc from the desktop, it properly runs xbmc. If I run your addon, it logs out, and runs Steam BPM, however once I quit Steam, it just sits at the desktop. RE: [RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within XBMC - teeedubb - 2014-04-09 1 that's how xbmcbuntu is designed - it auto logins to the last used session. 2 do you have 'wmctrl' installed? RE: [RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within XBMC - Zxurian - 2014-04-09 1) when I followed your setup for xbmcbuntu 12, even after opendesktop, it still went to xbmc on boot. Do I need to log in under xbmc to have that happen? 2) did a dpkg -l | grep wmctrl and got nothing, so assuming no? RE: [RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within XBMC - teeedubb - 2014-04-09 1 Im not sure what you mean. If you reboot after logging into the openbox desktop it should automatically log openbox desktop, and same with xbmc / xbmcbuntu-desktop sessions. Are you saying that after logging into the openbox desktop a reboot will take you back to the xbmc session? 2 yeah that program is needed to detect whether big picture mode has been exited. RE: [RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within XBMC - Zxurian - 2014-04-09 regarding booting, it does what you say. after rebooting, it goes straight into openbox desktop. I believe I misunderstood and that I had to logout, and then logback in under xbmc, and that will go straight to xbmc from now on, which it did after I rebooted. New Problem, installed wmctrl, and after rebooting went to run Steam BPM through your addon, it goes to a black screen with an X cursor in the center, steam window about "updating" steam appears, but then it kicks back to the xbmc loading screen, xbmc appears briefly, and then that goes away and I've got just a black screen now. (I can hear audio ticks when I use arrow keys, but no video) Edit: updated what happens when run RE: [RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within XBMC - teeedubb - 2014-04-09 Sounds like your running the add on from the xbmc session? RE: [RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within XBMC - Zxurian - 2014-04-09 okay, I may be confusing myself and others. here's what happens on my xbmcbuntu12, which I setup with your same walkthrough. when I turn the unit on, it boots straight to xbmc. When I run the Steam addon, it exits xbmc, and runs steam, and upon exiting steam, it goes back to xbmc. Trying to replicate that with xbmcbuntu13, but apparently i'm failing in communications. which "session" should i be logging in under? My options are "XBMC" & "XBMCBuntu" RE: [RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within XBMC - teeedubb - 2014-04-09 It should be booting into the openbox session. RE: [RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within XBMC - Zxurian - 2014-04-09 okay. and to get the openbox session to automatically run xbmc on boot instead of just sitting at the desktop? it looked like Code: echo "xsetroot -solid black &" >> $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh && echo "/usr/bin/xbmc &" >> $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh && chmod +x $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh RE: [RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within XBMC - teeedubb - 2014-04-09 Yeah that command was supposed to do that If you edit ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh And add /usr/bin/xbmc & That should autostart xbmc. Cheers for pointing that out, I'll update that post when I'm at a computer. RE: [RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within XBMC - Zxurian - 2014-04-09 Code: xbmc@xbmc2:~$ cd ~/.config/openbox that's what i've got in that file right now RE: [RELEASE] Steam Launcher - Start Steam Big Picture Mode from within XBMC - teeedubb - 2014-04-09 That's looks correct and its executable...when in openbox try running that script from a terminal window, that should show any errors. |