This is entirely my own hack, but it's fairly obvious. Please accept my apology in advance, if it's been posted.
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*THIS IS A COMPLETE HACK*
in fullscreen mode, XBMC locks the mouse/keyboard to it's window.
as a result, you can not launch XBMC fullscreen on one monitor, and still use your mouse/keyboard on another.
this is an issue with the sdl frameword that boxee/xbmc are based on, and not something that is easily fixed the those teams.
so here's what you can do:
1. install wmctrl.
click here on ubuntu.
2. configure boxee to launch in windowed mode.
in boxee: Settings > Appearance > Screen > Resolution.
set it to anything that ends in: "(Window)"
3. use wmctrl to make boxee fullscreen.
wmctrl -x -r xbmc.bin.xbmc.bin -b toggle,fullscreen
BAM! fullscreen XBMC, completely usable mouse/keyboard.
now, this is all fine and good, but I want to launch XBMC like this.
here is a simple shell script:
Code:
#! /bin/bash
STATUS=0
WINCLASS=xbmc.bin.xbmc.bin
DISPLAY=:0.1
SLEEPDELAY=1
/usr/bin/xbmc "$@" &
while [ $STATUS -eq 0 ]
do
sleep $SLEEPDELAY
STATUS=`wmctrl -x -l | grep $WINCLASS | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'`
done
wmctrl -x -r $WINCLASS -b toggle,fullscreenthen run this command:
chmod +x ~/bin/launch-xbmc
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note: set "DISPLAY" to whichever display you want XBMC to run on.
note: you may need to adjust "SLEEPDELAY" to be longer or shorter, depending on your system.
confession: i suck at scripting, so if i did something dumb, lemme know.
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