[Wintermute0110]

There is a launcher I made for GoG Galaxy which updated to its 2.0 version today. I tried it out from within Kodi and noticed that GoG fails to exit when the window is closed and there is no setting to do so except from the Windows 10 system tray. That means that program focus is returned to Kodi, but that Kodi remains suspended because the GoG exe is still in memory. I thought that changing the launcher setting to be non-blocking would fix this, but that didn't happen. Barring CD Projekt adding a shutdown option to its Galaxy client, is there anything I can do with the AEL launcher to make sure Kodi regains control and isn't suspended when I close the Galaxy windows?

Thanks.

That looks like some GoG Galaxy regression and the best thing to do is to contact their support for help.

AEL is a multiplatform launcher which means it does not have Windows-specific code to control window behavior. There are utilities (Google a bit) you can use to control windows and processes from the command line. With such utilities, you can create a CMD of BAT file. In this thread there is information about such utilities. Use google with the parameter site:forum.kodi.tv to restrict the search to the forum only.   

Understood. I'll keep up with GoG development. Their new Galaxy client is actually really good (it'll ingest a bunch of game services cleanly; very clever acquisition of user data) compared to the old one. And this does look to be a feature they had but haven't implemented in the new client.

In the interim I've discovered Playnite. To other people trying to do what I'm doing--get UWP programs into a gamepad controllable launcher--this github open source software does a very good job of a fullscreen interface: playnite.link . One can just create an AEL launcher for that or, if they're ambitious, edit the Steam launcher add-on to accommodate Playnite (or GoG or whichever game aggregator is one's preference). I already use Steam and Launchbox. This may be my go-to for all other services including Epic and the XBox Game Pass.

If you use Launchbox as a frontend I'm very interested in your feedback in order to improve AEL. For example, things in Launchbox you love which are not in AEL, etc.