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From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xbmc-13 upgrade to kodi-14 - no physical keyboard input
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:18:33
Message-Id: 574E29CC.6030202@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: xbmc-13 upgrade to kodi-14 - no physical keyboard input by Daniel Frey
1 On 05/31/2016 05:17 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
2 > On 05/30/2016 12:42 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
3 >> I finally got around to upgrading all my frontends to kodi-14, and none
4 >> of them have any usb keyboard input. I have a physical keyboard plugged
5 >> in and it doesn't respond to keypresses.
6 >
7 > I managed to figure this out.
8 >
9 > All of my frontends start mythfrontend and I'd created a menu entry for
10 > xbmc/kodi in mythfrontend itself, so I could start it when needed.
11 >
12 > Kodi dropped sdl support[1] and so now when it is started in this manner
13 > X doesn't focus the newly-created kodi window. If you boot directly into
14 > kodi apparently this issue doesn't happen.
15 >
16 > To get around this, I modified my kodi startup script that mythfrontend
17 > uses:
18 >
19 > #!/bin/bash
20 > /usr/bin/kodi &
21 > sleep 3
22 > DISPLAY=:0 xdotool windowfocus `xwininfo -display :0 -name "Kodi" | grep
23 > "Window id:" | cut -d\ -f4`
24 >
25 > So the script starts kodi, detaches it, waits a couple seconds for it to
26 > start up, then queries X for it's window ID and forces focus to it.
27 >
28 > Works now.
29 >
30 > Dan
31 >
32
33 ..aaand I forgot the reference!
34
35 [1] http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=212458&pid=1872100#pid1872100