2020-01-11, 17:59
(2020-01-11, 17:11)Redneck Wrote: I tried to edit guisettings.xml under .kodi/userdata/ turning to false the entry about music visualization, but it reverted back to true.
If you edited that with Kodi running, then it will be overwritten when Kodi quits. You have to edit that file when Kodi is not running.
In any case, the screen going black does not sound like a visualisation, and if you installed from PPA then Kodi doesn't come with any visualisations, you have to install them yourself from the repository. I don't use that addon myself, so I'm only guessing here but do you mean that this bit disappears ?
If that is the case and you have a keyboard connected, try pressing i on the keyboard and see if that helps.