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
