Redone kodi theme how to#
Redone kodi theme 720p#

Looking at the forums, there seems to be a lot of users that have a problem with this. Placed a config file in /etc/X11// (actually I added to one I

Redone kodi theme 720p#

This means that it'll change to 720p when Chrome opens. Video settings My system runs natively at 720p, but XBMC runs at 1080p,

In the Add-on settings for NetfliXBMC, enter you Netflix username and password, the rest of the settings are up to you.

Install NetfliXBMC, you'll find it in the repository here.

Select 'Chrome/script path', browse and select your script.

Set Chrome launcher to start using this script.

Make the script executable: chmod + x chrome.sh.

It moves the mouse pointer off screen and starts Google Chrome.

OBS: It seems that this gets lost when you update the Kodi package, so it needs to be redone when that happensР”В¬reate a script for launching Google Chrome (I simply called it chrome.sh and placed it in the xbmc home folder). Edit your kodi startup script (probably /usr/bin/kodi-standalone), and add ' openbox &' (without the quotation marks) as the first instruction in it (immediately after the copywrite stuff).Install Openbox window manager and xdotool: sudo pacman -S openbox xdtool.Make sure to use the -s argument when you do makepkg, since it includes dependencies.

Redone kodi theme how to#

Instruction for how to install from AUR can be found here.

Install Google Chrome (need at least version 37, AUR has version 38, and that's the one I installed).

Install the XBMC repository for Chrome Launcher, you can find a link to it on the Chrome Launcher Kodi forum thread.

So I have up dated the script and added step for how to do this. Update 2: In Helix, it is not possible to start /stop openbox at launch/close of chrome, it must be started before Kodi does. Update: Edited to reflect that there is a new repository and a new thread for NetfliXBMC on the Kodi forums. I'm using Arch Linux, with XMBC, without a desktop environment, you may be able to skip some of these steps, or adapt them according to your configuration. NetfliXBMC lets you browse the content in XBMC, and can then launch the selected content to play in Google Chrome.