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To launch chrome standalone I have to switch to the Lubuntu session. Chrome preferences for that session are saved to a different file, as I indicated in my early posts. Those preferences do not affect the preferences used in the Kodi session..

So somehow Netflixbmc works properly (after doing som hacky stuff) but launching Chrome from Chrome Launcher does not? Last time I checked this thread is called "Chrome Launcher", so in the spirit of this thread you have solved exactly nothing. Also, the same preferences are supposed to be used in both the kodi session and lubuntu session.

How am I not using Kodibuntu? Kodibuntu installed and gave me a Kodi session (default) and a Lubuntu session. Everything I am talking about here relates to the Kodi session. The only changes I have made are to install a few extra tools like MakeMKV.

Sorry, I thought you wrote something about using a minimal ubuntu 14.10 with Kodi. Maybe it was another user.

If I have to install a wm, then why use Kodibuntu at all?

I don't see any logic at all in your reasoning. You don't need a wm if all you are running is Kodi. If you want to launch external programs from Kodi that rely on a wm to function properly, then you use a wm. Failure to do so, and instead manually edit various files to get a half-assed solution, is really like voluntarily pissing on an electric fence.

(For the same reasons, OE includes a wm that Kodi runs on top)