[brunoschwartz]

Hello All,

I run ubuntu 12.04 with manually installed Xbmc 12 from the main repository. I also have installed the last version of advance launcher from the angelcry's repository.

Now I normally boot to XBMC session. When I do that and I want to run firefox through advanced launcher, the firefox windows comes up but has no input (no mouse nor keyboard). I can see the keyboard is affecting the XBMC in the background.

When I log out of XBMC session and log into unity and then manually run XBMC everything works fine.

What can be the problem?

[Angelscry]

There is no problem. Firefox is an application that need to be started into a desktop/windows manager environment (like unity or openbox) to be fully functionnal. When your start an XBMC session, no desktop/windows manager environment is loaded, so Firefox cannnot work correctly. That's normal... that's the goal of the XBMC session (start XBMC with minium application running into parallel). Here you have 2 solution to bypass this :

• Create a script that will start from XBMC/Advanced Launcher a light desktop/windows manager environment (like openbox) then that will start Firefox.
  
• Or log into a desktop/windows manager environment that will automatically start XBMC. Then all started application from XBMC/Advanced Launcher will work correctly.
  

[brunoschwartz]

Hello Angelscry,

Thanks for your advice. It works very well when run after openbox. Thanks for the great plugin.

[hhbernd]

Same Problem for me. I launched Chromium with the Advanced Laucher and it opens the Browser in Fullscreed-Mode. I can't quit the browser window because of no mousecursor or keyboard.
The only way is to quit by rebooting but then the XBMC-mainwindow is very small in the upper left corner of the TV-Screen. If I start Adcanced Launcher from the small window, the main window shortly gets maximezed but then the browser starts again with no cursor or keyboard action.
How can I quit chromium and return to a normal, maximezed XBMC-window ?

[hhbernd]

After the sixths reboot I'm back to the "normal", maximezed XBMC-window....

[*]Create a script that will start from XBMC/Advanced Launcher a light desktop/windows manager environment (like openbox) then that will start Firefox.

Can you explain how to start chromium with the script mentioned ?

Thanks

[Angelscry]

Same Problem for me. I launched Chromium with the Advanced Laucher and it opens the Browser in Fullscreed-Mode. I can't quit the browser window because of no mousecursor or keyboard.
The only way is to quit by rebooting but then the XBMC-mainwindow is very small in the upper left corner of the TV-Screen. If I start Adcanced Launcher from the small window, the main window shortly gets maximezed but then the browser starts again with no cursor or keyboard action.
How can I quit chromium and return to a normal, maximezed XBMC-window ?

If you do not have started any windows manager before, there is no way. You try to start an application that require mouse and keyboard feature into a system that do not manage it.

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After the sixths reboot I'm back to the "normal", maximezed XBMC-window....

[*]Create a script that will start from XBMC/Advanced Launcher a light desktop/windows manager environment (like openbox) then that will start Firefox.

Can you explain how to start chromium with the script mentioned ?

Thanks

You can try this : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=139269

[hhbernd]

Thanks for the answer

You can try this : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=139269

That helped me very much.