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Knute

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From: Minot, ND

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 604

Making Kodi/XBMC behave in xmonad (Solved)

I have been having issues with Kodi/XBMC not behaving in xmonad.

Kodi would show up full screen and cover ALL workspaces.  When I would set it to windowed it would stay stuck at the top of the screen, and unmoveable.

So I used wmctl to finally move it this morning, but still would only change size to part of the screen.
In order to see whether it was xmonad or kodi, I used fluxbox, and kodi worked just fine there.

The problem, as it turns out, is that I needed to enable EwmhDesktops, and to add ewmhDesktopsStartup to my StartupHook.

After that, I logged out and back in, and now Kodi is actually behaving.

This is less of a request for help, than an effort to document how I fixed the issue in case I need it again in the future! 

Also, I have been struggling with this for quite a while, and didn't really find much info on the issue when I did a search.   Who knew that it was just an ewmh issue?  lol

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Knute

sololittle

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Registered: 2015-04-11

Posts: 1

Re: Making Kodi/XBMC behave in xmonad (Solved)

Thank you!