[mikeSiLVO]

I noticed something new that I think may be a bug but unsure if it'd be in the skin (9.99.3) or Kodi itself.  We watched a movie last night and after it ended, the movie background image stayed as the Kodi background instead of returning to the `default` custom background set in the skin. I have a main menu entry that has its own background set and that background worked when scrolled to the menu entry. If I played another movie and stopped it only a few seconds in, the `default` Kodi background was now changed to that movies background, and again, the menu entry with its own background set worked as expected.

Hopefully that explanation is suitable. I can take screenshots if necessary.

Any ideas?

Not sure how that's possible, I have never seen it happen.

Hi
I understand Kodi picks up local fanarts automatically provided it's been named properly.

Using Aeon Nox Silvio and I deleted the images to make sure the new local fanarts named appropriately get picked up for the display.
Kodi did repopulate the images on restart but most local fanarts were not picked up - instead I get a blank option for fanart although the posters are displayed. But When I try manually I can see it has identified  the local fanart and it gives me the option to pick it up. However some...very few are picked up for some reason without any problems!

Not sure if it's a Kodi problem or Aeon Nox - Can anyone suggest to me what I could be doing wrong ? Picking up the local fanart manually is too big a job!

This might be a caching thing as it can sometimes take a little bit to download fanart in the background.
Alternatively, when scraping your library Kodi should pick up local artwork if named correctly.

HOW-TO:Create_Video_Library (wiki)
Artwork (wiki)
Scrapers (wiki)

@mikeSiLVO, just a question..If you know. I wouldnt expect this this to be a normal option in the skin, but only for my personal preference. So Im using the custom widget-2 option for addon shortcuts with square artwork for icons. Ive been tryin to track down where in the skin I could adjust the "itemgap". I was looking to get a little  more of a gap in between the custom widget 2 shortcuts. I just think they look too squashed together and would like a little more of a gap in between them. Ive been reading the skin shortcuts wiki and poking around in the xml's. Think Ive narrowed it down to Includes_Widgets.xml/ Widget 2 section. Just not sure how I would go about setting a little gap in between the custom widget shortcuts. (Skin setup- Centered main menu, widget 1 at the top, Custom Widget 2 , Square art at the bottom). I see it uses skinshortcuts-template-widget2 include to I guess set the layout. Can you give me any pointers? Thanks again.

The templates are built from the template.xml in the skins shortcuts folder.

@mikeSiLVO:

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I can add genres instead of ratings for only the shift view.

Hello, I use Kodi 19.5 and unfortunately I have to stay for now at 19.5 because with Kodi 20.x I have an issue with 3D videos. Therefore my question if it's possible that I can change this "genre topic" in the shift view by myself?
I use on a PC Linux VDR with the distribution EasyVDR5.

Thank you

You can try following the commit on GitHub and modding it into your matrix version. Not sure how old that is so I'd suggest a search with very few keywords.

Is the "hide next track widget" with left music layout alignment gone with v9.99.3 on latest RC1?
I cannot find it in music OSD settings :/

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