Yes, this is a noob question, but that's how bad I am at navigating in Unity.
I have Ubuntu 12.04 and I have XBMC to start directly at login (the machine is used primarily as my media player), and to respawn when it crashes/is stopped (this explains how, if that matters). What I am unable to figure out is how to get access to the Unity desktop. Is there not a keyboard shortcut I can use or something?
There must be some way to do it, since if I attach a USB drive to the machine, for example, it mounts, I get a window popping up and THEN I can access the Unity panel, and I can alt+tab my way back and forth between XBMC and that window. But as soon as I close it, I cannot get back to accessing Unity panel (and its GUI functions).
So my question, more specifically, is if there is a way to put XBMC in the background or something so that I may access the Unity desktop. Or another good way around the problem.