I'm using XBMC Frodo on a Ubuntu Lucid Lynx installation. Through the file /etc/init/xbmc.conf, I'm autostarting XBMC like often advised in this forum:
When looking at my TV, I only see the Ubuntu bootscreen for one blink (so only one of the bullets gets colored) and after that a shell login prompt. Here it sits for a few seconds, I guess until the "start on" condition is met, and XBMC starts.
What I would like to have: Instead of sitting at the login prompt and telling everyone in my living room that it is a Linux installation they're seeing, I would like to have
a) a bootscreen for the waiting time
or
b) the startup screen of XBMC for the waiting time.
As I'm not really sure this behavior of my installation is correct, I would be happy for some input. Before I uninstalled tvheadend (which was a leftover of a XBMC Live installation) the bootscreen took much longer to load and XBMC started immediately afterwards, no login prompt.
Code:
# xbmc-standalone
description "Autostart XBMC"
start on (filesystem and stopped udevtrigger)
stop on runlevel [06]
task
console output
emits starting-x
script
su xbmc -c "/usr/bin/startx /etc/X11/Xsession /usr/bin/xbmc-standalone"
end scriptWhen looking at my TV, I only see the Ubuntu bootscreen for one blink (so only one of the bullets gets colored) and after that a shell login prompt. Here it sits for a few seconds, I guess until the "start on" condition is met, and XBMC starts.
What I would like to have: Instead of sitting at the login prompt and telling everyone in my living room that it is a Linux installation they're seeing, I would like to have
a) a bootscreen for the waiting time
or
b) the startup screen of XBMC for the waiting time.
As I'm not really sure this behavior of my installation is correct, I would be happy for some input. Before I uninstalled tvheadend (which was a leftover of a XBMC Live installation) the bootscreen took much longer to load and XBMC started immediately afterwards, no login prompt.