[Kokonutcreme]

Apologies I was referring to the widgets, I was playing around and selected Banner for one widget and the tag is displayed by default.

Found a Bug where Tags is show in fixed banner layout, showing tags on focused item. Which is fixed ;-)

For KODI the remote actions are largely consistent, apart from Video OSD as they can vary from skin to skin.  Arctic Horizon, Arctic Reloaded, Embuary follows same behaviour, press Play once to pause and OSD buttons are displayed by default.  Titan Bingie Mod and SWAN press once to pause video, long press to display OSD buttons.

I'm using first generation Siri remote which only has play/pause button and volume control for video playback, navigation and ff/rw is done on touchpad. Second generation remote has added a click wheel to replace the touch pad interface.

Pressing Play/Pause button pauses video playback. Tap on left or right side of panel to skip back or forward, long press to seek scroll forward or back. Press Menu button to exit playback and return to menu, acts as the back button when using KODI.

Seems Keymap realted.

I did a quick look, at the default used file ( here )

May test before : with button '7', the key/button which brings up the contextmenu by default

With this key you should be able to open OSD if not Open, When OSD Open it closes OSD. (at least it should by default without any edits of files)

If that fail
You can eiter workaround with addon , if you dont have acces to filesystem and modify it by yourself (also i think its the easiest)
https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Keymap_Editor

Or
Create Custom Keymap override file using this

as a base and follow Instructions here
https://kodi.wiki/view/Keymap#Location_of_keymaps
https://kodi.wiki/view/Keymap#Defaults

Hope it helps...

Thanks so much for your detailed response, will give it a try and report back.