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Gerhard Burger
Asked: 2013-04-30 00:39:40 +0800 CST

How do I replace/quit Unity in Ubuntu 13.04?

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I am trying out Ubuntu 13.04 and the only thing that prevents me from completely switching is XBMC. I am running XBMC from the wsnipex PPA which is compiled with XVBA support.

XBMC doesn't like Unity that much and if started normally, it is very unresponsive (see also this question) and will not be able to use hardware decoding. A solution in Ubuntu 12.04 is to use the following script to start XBMC:

#!/bin/bash
metacity --replace &
sleep 2s
xbmc
unity --replace &
exit;

It replaces unity by metacity and this solves all my problems, however in Ubuntu 13.04 metacity is ditched, so I would like to know how I can replace/quit Unity there. (Starting XBMC standalone from the login screen lets me use hardware decoding but it is still a bit unresponsive, much slower than the above script for Ubuntu 12.04)

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    As it turns out, it is as easy as installing metacity Install metacity from the software center.

    The unresponsiveness was caused by System->Settings->Video Output where in my case Vertical blank sync should be set to Disabled (I have a slow machine).

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