[Zxurian]

progress!

apparently xbmcbuntu 13 doesn't use openbox, it uses lxde. Found http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1666892 when trying to google why autostart wasn't running, which lead me to

Code:

/etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf

and that's when I saw startxbmcbuntu was actually running

Code:

# Start the LXDE session
exec /usr/bin/lxsession -s XBMCbuntu -e LXDE

so I edited the lxde startup file to add /usr/bin/xbmc, and xbmc is now running as it's supposed to at boot.

now this is wha thappens when I try to run the steam bpm addon (I had top running via shell to see what was happening)
it briefly shuts back to the desktop, xbmc.bin no longer shows in top
then it switches to the xbmc loading screen, xbmc.bin shows in to pwith a new pid, like it was running new again
then a couple seconds after taht, steam bpm starts up, almost like it starts over xbmc. now xbmc.bin & steam are in top
if I exit steam, steam stays in top, and the view switches immediately back to xbmc since it was already running in the background.

shouldn't the addon exit xbmc to run steam so resources aren't being halved, then once steam is exited, rerun xbmc?