[blandoon]

I'm wondering if the upstart script could be modified to launch a window manager, like openbox, and then launch Kodi afterward? Since the script uses xinit to launch, I'm not sure what the best way to do that would be.

the script even includes a comment on how to do that.

It sure does... but it doesn't work exactly as entered. If you uncomment and modify that line to run openbox, like this:

Code:

script
# the following two are to get an idea, if you want to user a window manager
exec su -c "xinit /usr/bin/openbox --  /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0" $USER
exec su -c "xinit /usr/bin/kodi --standalone -- /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0" $USER
end script

...you just get a blank window with mouse cursor, no Kodi at all. My uneducated guess is that xinit can only be invoked once, but I tried it just directly running openbox without xinit, and that didn't work either.

Any ideas?