Advanced Launcher plugin usage under Xbian

[calcon79]

Ok so first I will admit that I am a Linux noob so I am pretty much tinkering with this setup but I have managed to get something working using the Advanced Launcher plugin. So far I can launch xbian-config and LXDE and automatically return to XBMC after closing these programs. I found two files named applaunch.sh and stop.sh from the following forum.

https://code.google.com/p/romcollectionbrowser/issues/detail?id=136

The last post yielded the settings that worked for me. I made a minor tweak to the stop.sh file so I have provided the files on here.

Despite successfully launching these programs from XBMC, I cannot for the life of me get it to work with emulationstation. The scripts use a screen command to keep a terminal session alive after stopping xbmc. Otherwise the original script will terminate along with the stop xbmc command. As far as I can tell the openvt command opens a virtual terminal session as root. It seems emulationstation will not run as root. I’ve tried many different things. It seems I cannot force the command passed to openvt to be run as user “xbian”. Does anyone have any ideas for how to get emulationstation to run in a shell script that is being run under a root user?

My last resort option was to try and create a script which might incorporate the following to force emulation-station to start on a reboot

sudo update-rc.d xbmc remove
sudo update-rc.d emulation-station default

Of course I’m not sure how to do the second command either since in my setup I may not have the emulation-station service. I installed RetroPie under my Xbian 1.0RC1 OS. So I have to manually start it by logging off XBMC and entering the command /home/xbian/RetroPie/supplementary/EmulationStation/emulationstation. Which works quite nicely except I have to login and enter the command which gets annoying. I would prefer an easier approach like launching it from XBMC.

From within emulationstation, I would need to add a application script witch will of course do the opposite.

sudo update-rc.d emulation-station remove
sudo update-rc.d xbmc default

If anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate this. It seems not many people even have a working advanced launcher setup with Xbian so I have at least made good progress with that so far. I just need to make this work with emulationstation.

[calcon79]

Ok I apologize for the confusion with attachments. I had to change the extensions to .txt and I realized I uploaded a stop.sh with something commented out. I am reattaching the correct files here. If someone knows how I can remove the original file attachments please let me know.

I also added my launcher.txt file so you can see the three launchers I have created. The only one that doesn’t work is the one for emulation station.

Update: Since I can’t figure out how to remove an attached file. I’m not going to reupload another one. I noticed my stop.sh still had a line commented out. I commented out the restart xbmc command. Normally this is not commented out but I was trying to freeze the script to figure out what was going on. Also these files are named applaunch.sh, stop.sh, and launchers.xml.

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