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Gerhard Burger
Asked: 2013-01-08 02:34:19 +0800 CST

How to prevent XBMC from shutting down or suspending your computer?

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Since I run XBMC as a program, and not standalone, I would just like it to exit when I click the power button. The default behavior is to show the shutdown menu, and I don't want to accidently shut down my computer.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Remap the Power button on the home screen to quit xbmc instead of showing the shutdown menu:
    You should modify the Home.xml file in your skin folder in /usr/share/xbmc. For me (Frodo RC3 with the Confluence skin) this is /usr/share/xbmc/addons/skin.confluence/720p/Home.xml.

    In this file you need to replace the line (in my case line 1067, see bottom of the post on how to quickly open the file at that position)

    <onclick>ActivateWindow(ShutdownMenu)</onclick>

    by

    <onclick>XBMC.Quit()</onclick>

    Now if you click the power button in XBMC it should just exit, without showing a menu.
    You need to do this again after XBMC updates since it overwrites the files in /usr/share/xbmc.

    Alternatives / Notes
    With the above solution you can still shutdown XBMC using a remote, or the web interface.

    Instead of doing the above (simply quiting, not showing the shutdown menu) you can also edit the shutdown menu instead. The menu itself is in /usr/share/xbmc/addons/skin.confluence/720p/DialogButtonMenu.xml. The interesting menu buttons are defined from line 73 and down. The shutdown button (id=3) has the property

    <visible>System.CanPowerDown</visible>

    changing this to

    <visible>no</visible>

    should hide it from the menu. You can do the same trick for suspend, reboot, etc.

    This still doesn't prevent shutting down from the webinterface I think, If only I knew how to set System.CanPowerDown=false...
    If you know it please add it in the comments.

    Extra: Commands to quickly open the file at the right position (1067,33)

    • Vim (If you don't know it, try to learn it, it is very nice!)

      sudo vim /usr/share/xbmc/addons/skin.confluence/720p/Home.xml +1067

      or even better (independent of actual line number)

      sudo vim /usr/share/xbmc/addons/skin.confluence/720p/Home.xml +/ShutdownMenu

    • Nano (terminal editor that is easy to use for beginners)

      sudo nano +1067,33 /usr/share/xbmc/addons/skin.confluence/720p/Home.xml

    • Gedit (Simple GUI editor)

      gksudo gedit /usr/share/xbmc/addons/skin.confluence/720p/Home.xml +1067
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