Force to start XBMC in fullscreen mode?

Question

I really tried:

xbmc -fs

And using the script way:

xbmc
sleep 10
wmctrl -x -r XBMC Media Center.XBMC Media Center -b toggle,fullscreen

From this script.

And yes, I know the key "|\" exists to switch between windowed and fullscreen. But I want to force to always in fullscreen mode.

None this works. Any sugestion?

Answer 1

Fullscreen is the default. Go into the System → Video settings and make sure you're not using a windowed mode.

Answer 2

I found the way to really force the XBMC to start in fullscreen mode, just editing the xml config file advancedsettings.xml:

nano ~/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml

And puting the content:

<advancedsettings>
  <fullscreen>true</fullscreen>
</advancedsettings>

Or simply do this using this command:

echo "<advancedsettings><fullscreen>true</fullscreen></advancedsettings>" > ~/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml

Answer 3

I switch window/full for different situations. But I have one particular case I need to to force windowed (you could force full with same approach). So here's how I do that at startup time (in a wrapper script).

ORIG_FILE=/home/me/.xbmc/userdata/guisettings.xml
BACK_FILE=${ORIG_FILE}.backup
cp $ORIG_FILE $BACK_FILE
awk '{if (index($0,"screenmode") > 0){ print "<screenmode>WINDOW</screenmode>" } else {print $0}}' $BACK_FILE > $ORIG_FILE