Solved the problem 100% killed cursor and anything related. Its no more YEY!
Obviously if you use a mouse/rat you wont get a cursor at all if you do this. so dont do it.
So if you are slightly peeved a cursor and the X and a black square in middle of screen @ xbmc startup worry no-more!
I was trying to append -- -nocursor to xinit
according to my previous post
Code:
exec su -c "xinit -- -nocursor /usr/bin/xbmc --standalone :0" $USER
Which of course is wrong and xbmc wouldn't boot (a glorious FAIL),
the .xinitrc suggested by thethirdnut didn't work + it killed the remote controller
So now my
/etc/init/xbmc.conf is as follows thus passing the kill cursor argument properly.
Code:
# xbmc-upstart
# starts XBMC on startup by using xinit.
# by default runs as xbmc, to change edit below.
env USER=xbmc
description "XBMC-barebones-upstart-script"
author "Matt Filetto"
start on (filesystem and stopped udevtrigger)
stop on runlevel [016]
# tell upstart to respawn the process if abnormal exit
respawn
script
exec su -c "xinit /usr/bin/xbmc --standalone -- -nocursor :0" $USER
end script
This works beautifully well, in fact its perfect.
Hope this can help some other folk too. Who dont use a window manager and get the blurp cursor when xbmc starts.
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Bram77 feel free to link another how-to in main posts!
One step closer to perfect minimal install + xbmc setup! Now to get xbmc to die and show X login, when selecting exit on power menu!
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