[Wallyo]

hi,
i was wondering, if there's a way to load a specific profile via shortcut on the desktop?

the problem for me is the following:
my monitor has a resolution of 1280x1024, my old PAL-TV only takes signals up to 800x600. so i created a second (TV-)profile with 800x600 on fullscreen (1st is the master, with 1280...). starting XBMC with the TV-profile already selected works perfectly well; the TV shows everything and so does the monitor.
but to choose the master-profile, if i want to watch something at the monitor, i always have to change the profile in the settings.

i know, there's the 'login screen', BUT when i use this, the TV profile is (with 800x600) always positioned in the upper left corner of the monitor (@1280x1024) and so not fully shown on the TV, too.

so the easiest way (in my eyes) to ged rid of this problem would be, to create 2 shortcuts to XBMC, each selecting the desired profile.
unfortunately i couldn't find anything about such a feature in the Online Manual and the forum search wasn't successful, too.

did i just overlook it or is there simply no feature/possibility to do that?

hope to hear something good

thanks in advance...
wally

[jmarshall]

This isn't currently possible (though it could probably be done with some scripting magic). The current profile is stored in profiles.xml I think, in the "root" userdata folder.

A patch to do this via the command line would be most welcome.

[The-Boxhead]

i second to that. a very handy function