System Hijacked By XBMC

Pete Smout smoutpete at gmail.com
Thu Sep 12 17:18:43 UTC 2013


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On Sep 12, 2013 4:36 PM, "R Kimber" <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:34:37 -0700
> Ernest Doub wrote:
>
> > My wifes old HP Media Center PC running Ubuntu 12.10 seems to have been
> > hijacked by XBMC.
>
> I'm not an expert, but you might be able to edit the boot options at the
> grub screen.  Then you could have a look at /etc/default/grub and see if
> there is reference to xbmc in the "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=" line. If
so,
> I imagine that removing that would stop it loading on boot. Or if you want
> to get rid of it altogether you could uninstall it, using synaptic
perhaps.
>
> - Richard.
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Hi,
Again I'm no expert, and I'm not infront of my pc atm. but from memory to
log out of XBMC you click on the standby symbol, located on or near the
bottom left corner of the screen!

Hope this helps!

Peter Smout
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