[this-account-is-gone]

Right, I've trawled the forums and the internet in general and I have been unable to find anything to help with this.

I have kodi installed on raspbian (yes I know other distros exist for using kodi which are more streamlined, no they don't meet my needs, yes I am sure that this is the setup I want).

Currently, the keyboard presses are recognised by Kodi but they all reference shortcuts, even when focused on a textbox or with the virtual keyboard onscreen. This is Undesireable Behaviour as far as I am concerned, and I would prefer to be able to type into the textboxes, even if this sacrifices keyboard shortcuts.

Is there a way to set this up?

[nickr]

As an alternative, try kore for typing in textboxes.

However I don't think what you are seeing is normal kodi behaviour. When a textbox is focused, it should ac6t as a keyboard in my experience.

[this-account-is-gone]

Thanks for your response.

Kore is, unfortunately, not an option for everyone using the device, though it would be a good solution if I was the only family member using it.

Interesting that this is not normal Kodi behaviour, since it's a default setup. I'll try with a different keyboard to see if that helps.

Any further advice on how to fix what is apparently a problem would be appreciated.

[popcornmix]

Does it work when launching kodi as root?

I think it may be a permissions issue. See:
http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/que...d-or-mouse
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=257548

[rascas]

Did you set an udev rules to give the necessary permissions for Kodi ? It is generally needed on Raspbian.

Check the permissions part on this link:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt...hp?t=99866

[this-account-is-gone]

Sadly, the various permissions are all configured correctly and this does not fix this issue. To reiterate; the keypresses are recognised, but they are not treated as alphanumeric characters for typing text, they simply trigger shortcuts.

The kodi package is launched as the pi user, as kodi-standalone.