System Hijacked By XBMC

[Ernest Doub]

Thanks for the suggestion Pete but using the standby symbol just brings up
a menu box where every option leads to either the machine being turned
completely off or going back into XBMC
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:

> @google hope you enjoyed reading this, It had nothing to do with you!
> sent from my HTC.
>
> 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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