kodi-standalone-service

A simple systemd service file to run kodi in standalone mode.

Dependency List

• systemd
• xorg-server with xorg-xinit

Post-install instructions

If using xorg version >=1.16 then create /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config containing this line:

allowed_users = anybody

Note that the systemd service requires /var/lib/kodi to be user kodi's homedir. See the readme.install which contains scriptlets used by the Arch Linux package system. Users of other distros can adapt the code therein.

Credit

Credit for the service given to the Arch Linux maintainers of the official kodi package.