OK, so for me XBMC does not like being run from Steam ( sometimes crashes out, or causes Steam to crash out and relaunch ). But is happy to run from the desktop. But thats a liitle annoying for me to launch the desktop and then launch XBMC... well, what I did install was create a user for xbmc, set the default session for that user to xbmc:


Now to get SteamOS to switch to that user in the most sexy fashion possible, you need to create a "game" for it. start by creating a script as /usr/bin/switchtoxbmc.sh with the following contents:


Make sure you sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/switchtoxbmc.sh
Next make a .desktop file to launch the script. You should save the desktop file as /usr/share/applications/launchxbmc.desktop. It should contain the following contents:


Then log into the steam user, NOT with SteamOS but with gnome as the session, you need to disable the auto login to do this. Edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and comment out the autologin-user=steam entry ( put a # in from of it ). You also need to give the steam account a password:


Then you can then you can log into steam from lightdm with the password steam ( don't forget to select gnome as the xsession ), and launch steam with /usr/bin/steam .... This may open it in big picture, but you'll have a menu in the bottom right corner to allow you to exit, or switch it to the normal view. Once you're in the normal view you can just go to add Games -> add a Non-Steam game. From this menu you should be able to find, Launch XBMC. Add that and from your library if you launch it, it will launch in its own session in the same fashion as the desktop user.

You can also add a link somewhere in XBMC itself that launches /usr/bin/returntosteam.sh to get back to steam, without exiting XBMC if you wish. This will not effect the desktop account either, and this will run as normal. To clean up, just switch back to the desktop account and once again, edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and un-comment the line: autologin-user=steam

After a restart you should be back to normal.

This will work for any app that can be run as a session. In theory you should be able to run this for as many accounts as you want, but remember that each account will be running at the same time once they get called so can quickly eat into your RAM.

I'll try and post a propper write up tomorrow here: https://wiki.tenmilesout.net/wiki/Steam_OS_Side_Launch_XBMC

But for now, I must go to bed.

There will be issues with 3d acceleration in the virtualised environment. And also would require a Retail licence for Windows instead of a OEM licence.

Цитата допису RisingHelix:

Interestingly: I just found out that if one had already set up apt-pinning for accessing the Debian testing repo's on a machine set to primarily use the stable repo's, the a=testing section of the definition would include the steam repo's.

Yes, you'd have to distinguish it with:

Цитата допису SimicEngineer:

Does anyone know how to resolve dependencies that call for an exact version, but apparently fail because of the "+bsos1" in the SteamOS versions? There will be an error along the lines of

libxml2-dev : Depends: libxml2 (= 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2) but 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2+bsos1 is to be installed

Pin the dependencies:

Just to let you know, that is a completely misconfigured apt-pinning config as you can see by the command: apt-cache policy


As you can see, there is no a=alchemist or a=wheezy. You misunderstood the guide that you based your config from
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if you want to do it correctly in that fashion, it would be best to use the "l" param:

you can set it so that account doesn't need the password to use sudo: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sudo or you can add a third account for admin stuff

If you change the desktop user you would have to alter steamos scripts that are used to switch os to it. If you leave desktop without a password then there is not way for someone to ssh into the account.

Цитата допису mijofa:

I am currently working on getting SteamOS built for own own PXE boot systems at home. Just been running into some confusion with the install process as I need to set it up with debootstrap for it to work.

I don't expect Valve will ever officially support this kind of set up though.

https://wiki.tenmilesout.net/wiki/Steam_OS_Deboostrap

My Legacy Boot Guide is more up to date / complete

lightdm is used for the autologin, and possibly the session switching

Wow that's difficult to read. can you use pastebin for the console output or code tags