How to switch from XBMC to Ubuntu in XBMCbuntu

Later today I'm going to see if I can't maybe track where this comes from. I think it's possible that it's unintended to have anything more than XBMCBuntu and XBMC as an option on the boot menu. It's likely it's not a fully configured desktop interface. I'm not entirely familar with Linux so I'll have to look and see how they set those options up.

(2013-06-06 17:51)Finchy Wrote:  Hi guys

Just jumping on to the back of this one.... I've just installed XBMCBuntu and needed to go into Ubuntu to access Gparted. When I exited XBMC and select Ubuntu from the login screen and logged in I just got a blue background and cursor but no icons, desktop, etc, and there was no way to get out of it or do anything. When I rebooted it put me straight back into the same session and not back into XBMC. I also tried doing the same on an XBMCBuntu live drive and that did exactly the same.
Any ideas what happened there? And how I get out of it?

I'm on a Revo R3700, if that's any use.

Thanks

I am having this same issue. This is killing me because I was just about to have a marathon movie watching session on Fathers Day and wanted to stream something through the desktop, but now the whole system is stuck in this blue screen and I cant get out, and just dont have the energy today to completely re install everything.

you have an overscan issue and the icons is down beyond what you can see.
You can probably bring up up the start menu down at the left if you try real hard,

This thread should be improved, not good enough to be a sticky. What is the best way to sort this problem? randr?

If it was simply an overscan issue right clicking should bring up the contextual menu. When I attempt to bring up the terminal using the keyboard shortcut nothing would come up, instead of the error that is supposed to appear. Besides that, I use two monitors, so I should have seen something on one of them. However, I will be sure to make sure that it isn't something as simple as an over scan issue. I would be surprised though, since this same configuration worked fine in the XBMCBuntu session, the "Ubuntu" session is that which seems to have a problem.

(2013-06-16 21:20)constrictor Wrote:  I am having this same issue. This is killing me because I was just about to have a marathon movie watching session on Fathers Day and wanted to stream something through the desktop, but now the whole system is stuck in this blue screen and I cant get out, and just dont have the energy today to completely re install everything.

I was able to get out of this "blue desktop" mode by plugging a real keyboard into my HTPC (I normally use a media remote) and pressing CTRL + ALT + DEL and a box appeared asking if I wanted to logout. I was able to TAB over to the OK button and it took me to a login window, where I was able to select XBMC and then log back into the normal XBMC mode.

I actually discovered that trick yesterday, I'm shocked I didn't try it. Unfortunately this trick doesn't work if you log into the "Openbox" or "Openbox/Gnome" sessions. Although one of them auto-logs you out as soon as you login due to some error. I'll attempt to document it later, currently I'm away from home, but when I get back I'm going to be working on my backend server.