On 05/31/2016 05:17 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 05/30/2016 12:42 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: >> I finally got around to upgrading all my frontends to kodi-14, and none >> of them have any usb keyboard input. I have a physical keyboard plugged >> in and it doesn't respond to keypresses. > > I managed to figure this out. > > All of my frontends start mythfrontend and I'd created a menu entry for > xbmc/kodi in mythfrontend itself, so I could start it when needed. > > Kodi dropped sdl support[1] and so now when it is started in this manner > X doesn't focus the newly-created kodi window. If you boot directly into > kodi apparently this issue doesn't happen. > > To get around this, I modified my kodi startup script that mythfrontend > uses: > > #!/bin/bash > /usr/bin/kodi & > sleep 3 > DISPLAY=:0 xdotool windowfocus `xwininfo -display :0 -name "Kodi" | grep > "Window id:" | cut -d\ -f4` > > So the script starts kodi, detaches it, waits a couple seconds for it to > start up, then queries X for it's window ID and forces focus to it. > > Works now. > > Dan >
..aaand I forgot the reference! [1] http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=212458&pid=1872100#pid1872100
