I wanted a stand alone media center and everything pointed to XBMC. I tried the various LiveCD versions of XBMC but each had problems that either prevented the system from working or were too annoying. The solution turned out to be a S lackware 14 box that boots right into XBMC.
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.twm
to ~/.xinitrc
to set twm as the default window manager.kodi
and login as the user kodi
to create the essential window manager configuration files.~/.xinitrc
to simplify the window manager even further. At the bottom, change: /usr/bin/twm & /usr/bin/xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 & /usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 & /usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 & exec /usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
to:
/usr/bin/twm & #/usr/bin/xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 & #/usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 & #/usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 & #exec /usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login exec /usr/bin/xbmc -geometry +0+0
sudo -u kodi startx
this is instructing the system to login as the kodi
user on boot and start the default window manager.
After you reboot the machine, it should boot right into kodi, and you should have a working media center/HTPC.
If you keep your media files on other machines and they are accessible via Samba or NFS, make sure you enable file sharing:
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.samba;/etc/rc.d/rc.samba start
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.nfsd;/etc/rc.d/rc.nfsd start
For NFS, you'll have to do some other configuration but all that is explained in the NFS wiki pages.
* Originally written by arfon