Kodi is running on a Raspberry Pi3 which is running Raspbian Stretch.
The problem is when I run Kodi all keyboard commands to leave Kodi with out shutting down do not work.
examples.
Alt + Tab to switch to different windows
Kodis own Backslash \ to minimise windows.
The area in Kodi under system to run kodi minimised it is not even there.
Tried Alt + F11 this is a linux keyboard command someone on forum suggested. This I just was reading thru different sites.
Tried to change setting files so kodi would run minimised, tried looking for CLI commands to force it to run minimised.
My question is, is there any keyboard shortcuts, or command line that will allow me to move from Kodi to the desktop, so I can then go to google and do a search or what ever.
I personally have never installed Raspbian, but my guess is that they disabled that on purpose. Because it is a distribution solely built to run Kodi, and nothing else.
It could probably be reversed, but I guess you’d be better off just installing Debian (or whatever) and install Kodi on there.
Raspbian doesn’t have a proper DE I think so that may also be a reason.
Not completely sure how codec support is and/or if Kodi brings its own now, but when in doubt I would just use Stretch, since that’s what Raspbian seems to use.
Going to give Ubuntu Mate a try.
Hoping it will be better.
If not will just go back to running just kodi and just go to my pc to do the lookups
Thanks for the info
Raspbian is not a Kodi-specific distro, it’s just debian for the Rpi. The most popular Rpi Kodi distro is LibreElec.
From the Kodi Wiki, the only keyboard command to exit is CTRL-END, and it only works on the homepage. You can setup hotkeys outside of Kodi to kill the process via shell script or something, I used to do that back when I used linux for Kodi.
Raspbian is an Linux OS and Kodi is a program that runs in LibreElec Windows Linux OSMC.
When Kodi does not behave like it is doing in Raspbian Stretch then something is not working.
Kodis own hotkeys like backslash \ do not work even.
I have edit hotkeys, and nothing.
Was hoping someone had a shell script that worked so I could switch from Kodi to the desktop and back, ie a keyboard command to minimize kodi and put it in the taskbar.
Do not want to exit kodi just minimize it to the task bar.
Sorry just had a few days of tring to get this to work.
Thanks have a day
I am not trying to kill the process nor exit, I am trying to alt + tab, ie switch to a different program that is running. If you have a script that will give me some way to force kodi to minimize, or just allow me to change programs then I would be very happy.