Black screen on launch

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1.Launch any SNES game

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

ZSNES should launch but instead I get just a black screen apparently hung, can 
switch to a terminal view and kill processes but am unable to get XBMC or 
ZNSNES back

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

XBMCbuntu Frodo 12.2

Please provide any additional information below.

I have tried entirely erasing rom collection broswer and all config files that 
I could find from the system and it still does the same thing, launching from 
XBMCbuntu shows ZSNES is working as expected, only launching from Rom 
Collection Browser hangs.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Rob.SS.B...@gmail.com on 21 May 2013 at 3:34

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Having this exact same issue.
Configured ZSNES at the Xbmcbuntu session, can run it fine directly from 
Lubuntu interface.
But as soon as I am going back to the XBMC inteface, and run it from there, 
only a black screen.
However, I don't think this is a "Rom Collection Browser" issue, I have the 
same issue when I run a game from within "Advanced Launcher"

Original comment by JvsJMe...@gmail.com on 27 May 2013 at 2:42

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I am having the exact same issue :( Any ideas?

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2013 at 9:55

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Sorry, I don't have an XBMCbuntu installation, so I can't really help.

I know some users solved this issue with installing an additional window 
manager (like OpenBox) and launch games in solo mode.

Original comment by maloep on 12 Jul 2013 at 8:34

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I had the same problem with XBMCUbuntu downloaded a few days ago. After quite 
some hacking, the only solution that works properly is to install OpenBox (or 
any other window manager) and run the emulators in SOLO MODE. Also, I launch 
XBMC with -fs parameter, and NOT -standalone. Search in the XBMC forum for 
instructions on how to do this.

Now, MAME and Mednafen work great. The only (minor) problem I currently have is 
that if I select Exit in XBMC menu, XBMC exits leaving a grey screen (only 
OpenBox running with no windows). However, Suspend, Hibernate, Reboot and 
Shutdown all work OK.

Original comment by jmdmendi...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2013 at 7:49

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Original comment by maloep on 14 Jun 2014 at 5:42

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