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Sounds like the AHK script isn't being run... After running the add on is there a green H icon in the icon tray on the windows task bar? Or is SteamLaunch-AHK.exe running in task manager? You're not running xbmc in portable mode or anything like that?
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Nope, there's no tray icon or SteamLaunch-AHK.exe process running. By portable do you mean a portable install? My XBMC was installed conventionally.
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2014-02-04, 06:08
(This post was last modified: 2014-02-04, 06:14 by Samyr.)
The command does work for me in a batch file (after removing the extra question mark). I reselected the paths, but no luck. What/where is the user-script I should try and delete? If that doesn't work I'll upload my logs.
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Strange, that is pretty much the command that is run by the addon (only difference is paths for launchhidden.vbs and steamlaunch-ahk.exe are provided by xbmc). You can delete the scripts via the addon settings, but I doubt this will have any effect as it appears the scripts are working. Seeing as its working via a batch file, can you try v0.3.6 or v0.5.2 on the first page, they used a batch file.
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2014-02-04, 18:58
(This post was last modified: 2014-02-04, 20:04 by dkplayaclub.)
Can this be set up so I do not have to actually close steam to return to XBMC, but just minimize it or something?
EDIT - I see that I can choose "Return to desktop" rather than "Exit Steam" and steam will stay open, but every time I do that XBMC opens in windowed mode. Is this due to Steam Launcher?
EDIT 2 - Seems I was able to just force XBMC to open in fullscreen mode by adding this to my advancedsettigns.xml file.
<advancedsettings>
<fullscreen>true</fullscreen>
</advancedsettings>
Cool beans.
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OK. Now I'm just being a pest. The more I play with this addon, the more questions I have. I was wondering if you could make it optional to shut down XBMC when launching Steam. This would come in very handy if someone sends me a message while I am watching a movie, or if I want to use the Web Browser while listening to music.
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The line you need to comment out/delete is
xbmc.executebuiltin( "ActivateWindow(busydialog)" )
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Thanks very much for this Teeedubb! I've been wanting to try Steam on my HTPC for a while now but I've been waiting until I wiped and re-installed Ubuntu 13.10 and a fresh copy of XBMC. Well, did that last night so I'll be giving this a go soon.
Now that Steam Live can stream many, many Windows games to a linux PC with pretty basic hardware requirements, your addon will probably be surging in popularity soon! Users have been reported overall success with it and I just got my beta invite a few days ago, so I can't wait to see how it works.