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sdsnyr94 Wrote:Just to throw in my 2 cents......
I am not using your script, or running firefox. I am using my own script to run an app called Squeezeplay so I can sync my music with my Squeezebox.
On Camelot on up to Dharma Beta 3 my script worked fine, and when exiting Squeezeplay it would go right back into XBMC. After updating to Beta 4, I get the black screen that z0mbi3 is talking about. The only way to recover is to stop/start xbmc-live or reboot the unit.
z0mbi3 - have you tried going back to an earlier Beta to see if it resolves your black screen issues?
edit: both launcher and executor plugins behave the same way
same problem for me. After exiting any application launched within a windowmanager (i've tried fluxbox and openbox) I'm getting a black screen.
But if I only launch the application without a windowmanager and then kill it, everything's fine. The only problem of doing it that way is that I can't have a fullscreen firefox, and moreover, I don't have any mouse pointer that way....
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Temar Wrote:The mouse problem however seems to be a XBMC problem. I do not use a window manager either and in Dharma Beta2 I was able to use my mouse with firefox. Since Dharma Beta4 my mouse gets disabled when launching firefox. After killing firefox, the mouse works again. If I start firefox on its own without XBMC running and without a window manager the mouse works.
Well, seems we have to wait for a next beta release to get our problems fixed
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Temar Wrote:I'm not sure the developers are aware of the problem. Did someone file a bug report?
I, for sure, didn't as I just learned that I wasn't the only one with this problem.
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No, it works fine for me with Beta4.
Use the executor instead of launcher and follow the instructions from that on.
The only suggestion I have is to check for updates on the executor.
If fluxbox does not close after ff, you are doing it wrong.
It happened once that I lost the mouse, but after reboot it has worked again.
The only problem I have is an overscan issue that I hope can be fixed by another nvidia driver version.
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vikjon0 Wrote:No, it works fine for me with Beta4.
Use the executor instead of launcher and follow the instructions from that on.
The only suggestion I have is to check for updates on the executor.
If fluxbox does not close after ff, you are doing it wrong.
It happened once that I lost the mouse, but after reboot it has worked again.
The only problem I have is an overscan issue that I hope can be fixed by another nvidia driver version.
Well, as I've already said, I get the same problem with executor and launcher, both are up to date.
The problem does not come from fluxbox/openbox not closing, that part is OK (I've checked, the processes aren't running after closing firefox). It's really going back to XBMC but XBMC is all black
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What usb devices do you have plugged in? Like I said my TV dongle was causing my black screen and mouse issues.
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I don't have any USB devices on the XBMC box, and it's not a problem of minimized XBMC.
When Firefox is launched and I hit alt-tab to switch to windowed XBMC, I already have the blackscreen in "XBMC Media Center Window". As soon as openbox/fluxbox windowmanager starts, XBMC window becomes all black.
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Temar Wrote:So you are saying that as soon as XBMC switches to windowed mode, it becomes black? If that is the case you can still give '\' a try, as this switches back to XBMC fullscreen mode.
the switching back to fullscreen works, it's just that it stays black. I'll check if I see something in the log later.
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Hi,
Hope someone can help me. I followed a guide on the forum on how to use Launcher/Executer using the following script. I am currently running XBMC live Dharma RC2.
@!/bin/bash
fluxbox &
"Name of App"
killall -9 fluxbox
This is working fine with Firefox and pptview however I can not get it work correctly with openoffice. When I try and launch openoffice the program flashes up on screen for just a millisecond and then reverts back to XBMC as if the program had stopped and started. However if I then run either the Firefox laucher or pptview and minimize them in fluxbox I can see that open office is running in the background.
So I can work around the problem but I don't undertsand why this is happening. I can close openoffice after launching one of the other scripts however navigating the program this way can be problematic and often causes the Firefox program to corrupt.
I have tried all scripts in both Executer and Launcher however the results are the same. I have the feeling I may be missing something simple as openoffice can obviously run however it needs tweaking to open and close properly by using it's own plugin.
Any help would be really appreciated.
