Automatically run xbmc at bootup in lubuntu

Question

Running a fresh install of lubuntu 14.04, would like to have xbmc run at boot but I cant seem to find any system setting like that. Any ideas where to look?

Answer 1

Either you try adding the command at

/etc/rc.d/rc.local

or

$ mv yourcommand.sh /etc/init.d/
$ sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/yourcommand.sh
$ sudo update-rc.d yourcommand.sh defaults 

Answer 2

Upstart init script for xbmc

Create a /etc/init/xbmc.conf with following contents:

# xbmc-upstart
# starts XBMC on startup by using xinit.
# by default runs as xbmc, to change edit below.
env USER=xbmc

description     "XBMC-barebones-upstart-script"
author          "Matt Filetto"

start on (filesystem and stopped udevtrigger)
stop on runlevel [016]

# tell upstart to respawn the process if abnormal exit
respawn

script
  exec su -c "xinit /usr/bin/xbmc --standalone -- -nocursor :0" $USER
end script

Note: -- -nocursor option kills all X cursor on XBMC startup and does not interfere with mouse use/operation

You may have to edit /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config and replace the last line that says:

allowed_users=console to allowed_users=anybody

Source: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Install_XBMC_for_Linux