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Who is this for: If you run Ubuntu that boots into Xorg and you want xbmc to auto start every time. This should work for most Ubuntu desktop installs. This is the most basics of howto's and should be new user friendly.

Note: If you auto login then you will not need to do anything but turn the system on. Very WAF.

Step 1. Get into a terminal. Either by ssh (log in as needed) or selecting Application->Accessories->Terminal from the menu.

Step 2. Change to your home directory.

Code:

cd ~

Step 3. Now change to the auto start directory for this user.

Code:

cd .config/autostart

Output should look like this
[email]user@computer:~/.conf[/email]ig/autostart$

Step 4. Launch a text editor to edit xbmc.desktop

Code:

nano xbmc.desktop

Steop 5. Copy and paste the following into the xbmc.desktop file and save.
Change the Exec command as needed. ~ means your home directory. So ~/.xbmc is the same as /home/yourusername/.xbmc

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=Beta2
Type=Application
Name=Launch XBMC on startup
Comment=XBMC will run every time this user logs in.
Exec=~/.xbmc/xbmc.bin
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false

Note: shift-ins for paste

Done.