Linux Howto do not show xbmc interface ?

Hi all,
I use xbmc on my linux computer but I would not have the menu graphical interface. Only my desktop.
Once I start a movie (or photos) from http remote interface or airplay, xmbc shows the media.
Is there a way to do that ?

You can pass the media file name as a command line argument. In Windows you just register XBMC as the default player for the file type. Presumably something similar can be done in Linux.

However I think this defeats the whole point of using XBMC. Why not just use VLC, which is smaller and quicker?

JR

I'm looking for a way to display videos from remote locations (samba and airplay) on my computer using remote control interface (like http).
But I would like to keep my desktop when no media is played.
Is VLC is able to run "as server" with airplay compatibility ?

Anybody knows how to do that ?

you're asking xbmc to do something that it was never designed to do. xbmc is designed to be the main interface, asking it to never appear unless a movie is playing and disappear at its conclusion is simply not going to happen without heavy modification to xbmc or the calling application

you could alter the xbmc execution paramets to include a wait statement for approx. 3-4 hours then kill the original PID, so xbmc would be off after 3 hours of playtime.