2010-07-20, 12:43
I am having a bit of a problem and hours of searching the internet have done me no good.
Something with my remote control makes XBMC minimize once in a while. It's rare; it happens maybe once a week. But I hit a button on my IR remote and XBMC minimizes. Your guess is as good as mine as to why it happens but even after reformatting, it still happens. It's not a big deal, but nothing is more annoying than watching Futurama at 2am, trying to go to bed, and having to get up and look for my mouse to click back to XBMC.
I would like to know if there's a way, even if it's via use of an external program, to make XBMC "always on top no matter what" meaning hitting Win+D does not minimize it, ALT+TAB does not minimize it, getting an instant message does not minimize it, etc. I know this must be possible because kiosks all over the world use Windows systems and they have "front ends" that cannot be exited no matter how hard you try. For reference, I am using the latest XBMC on Windows 7, but this problem has been ongoing since the early versions of the (fantastic) program.
In short, I want XBMC to run in front of everything and other than clicking the exit XBMC button inside XBMC, I don't want anything to close or minimize it. Any help would be much appreciated!
Something with my remote control makes XBMC minimize once in a while. It's rare; it happens maybe once a week. But I hit a button on my IR remote and XBMC minimizes. Your guess is as good as mine as to why it happens but even after reformatting, it still happens. It's not a big deal, but nothing is more annoying than watching Futurama at 2am, trying to go to bed, and having to get up and look for my mouse to click back to XBMC.
I would like to know if there's a way, even if it's via use of an external program, to make XBMC "always on top no matter what" meaning hitting Win+D does not minimize it, ALT+TAB does not minimize it, getting an instant message does not minimize it, etc. I know this must be possible because kiosks all over the world use Windows systems and they have "front ends" that cannot be exited no matter how hard you try. For reference, I am using the latest XBMC on Windows 7, but this problem has been ongoing since the early versions of the (fantastic) program.
In short, I want XBMC to run in front of everything and other than clicking the exit XBMC button inside XBMC, I don't want anything to close or minimize it. Any help would be much appreciated!