Posts tagged XBMC Live

How to get a working remote for your ASRock ION 330 HT on XBMC-Live

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August 11, 2011
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You know how they say “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”
Well… I should have listened.

Yesterday i did a full update of my XBMC-Live box, and with it I got a new kernel version.
This broke my remote, again, which basically makes it unusable as a HTPC.

Here’s how to fix it.
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Replacing fluxbox with gnome on XBMC Live

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November 9, 2010
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XBMC Live comes with fluxbox pre-installed as the window manager.
When you exit XBMC to console and run ‘startx’ fluxbox will be launched.
It’s pretty basic and I didn’t really dig it, although I didn’t really give it a chance either.

So out with fluxbox and in with gnome, as that’s what I’m familiar with.
This can be accomplished rather easily
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-core
This will give you a clean and very basic install of gnome.

My next step was installing firefox.
sudo apt-get install firefox

Then i did a reboot just to be on the safe side
sudo reboot
You’ll notice the machine still boots straight into XBMC, as i desired.
If you want to boot into gnome and start XBMC from there, you’re most likely better off installing the desktop version of unbuntu and installing XBMC on that.

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