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[IriDium]

Just for a laugh, and to see if it made any difference, I installed xbmc on Wheezy. It runs like a dog and has higher than normal cpu usage.

However, I did get netsurf running (sort of) and it was visible when you “shrunk” xbmc with the # key (and via "top"). You could see the front screen plain as day. However, it was useless as the keys and mouse were still bound to the xbmc display and would not move off it.

In "ps" you can see that xbmc and netsurf are both using tty1

However, I could not replicate the result in xbian.

So to get a browser, the simplest method would be to get xbmc to recognise the <cntl> <alt> <function key> (or whatever) to switch to another display. If you could switch into another display you should be able to run netsurf-fb without any problems (Assuming the KB and mouse work!)

What I also don’t understand, is why it works perfectly in Ubuntu XBMC. You run Advanced launcher for netsurf-fb and up it pops on top of xbmc.

Is this maybe a problem with Advanced launcher and not xbmc?