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Load XBMC straight into... - Ninjamin - 2010-11-19
Please could someone tell me if it is possible to open XBMC straight into:-
Movies, TV, Pictures, ect. via a shortcut or command line.
- joebrady - 2010-11-19
Check your skin settings
- Ninjamin - 2010-11-19
Would this be skin dependent then. What I mean is I would like a selection of shortcuts that open XBMC into each section.
- PatK - 2010-11-19
Ninjamin Wrote:Would this be skin dependent then. What I mean is I would like a selection of shortcuts that open XBMC into each section.Yes this is mostly skin dependant, but I guess you could start hacking away. I'm using Transparency! which under skins allows you to hide all the home window buttons and additionally allows for 3 Custom buttons (+ sub menu's) So I suspect that would be enough...
- jmarshall - 2010-11-19
See Settings->Appearance. XBMC can load a specific window at startup regardless of skin.
- jhsrennie - 2010-11-19
Ninjamin Wrote:Would this be skin dependent then. What I mean is I would like a selection of shortcuts that open XBMC into each section.
I can't think of an easy way to do this. There are no command line flags to specify what page XBMC opens on startup. You can have a Python script run at startup (by naming it autoexec.py and putting it in, erm, some directory that I forget). Conceivably you could play some clever tricks with this script to achieve what you want, though it would be a bit hacky.
JR
- Ninjamin - 2010-11-19
Is it worth asking for a feature request?
- jmarshall - 2010-11-20
How about you just read my post?
- jhsrennie - 2010-11-20
jmarshall Wrote:How about you just read my post?
If I understand Ninjamin's post correctly, he wants to have separate desktop shortcuts that open different pages i.e. double-clicking one shortcut runs XBMC and goes straight to Music while double-clicking a different shortcut runs XBMC bt goes straight to Videos.
You could still use the skin settings but you'd need the shortcut to run a batch file that copies different versions of guisettings.xml aound the starts XBMC.
@Ninjamin: I'd be surprised if this feature were to be added to XBMC as there are plenty of other things to occupy the developers time.
JR
- Ninjamin - 2010-11-20
jhsrennie Wrote:If I understand Ninjamin's post correctly, he wants to have separate desktop shortcuts that open different pages i.e. double-clicking one shortcut runs XBMC and goes straight to Music while double-clicking a different shortcut runs XBMC bt goes straight to Videos.Exactly what I'm after thank you I'll have a look into this. See if it meets my needs.