A simple systemd service to run kodi in standalone mode

It is forked from graysky2/kodi-standalone-service

We improved kodi user creation and systemd service to allow you use 80 port in kodi web interface

Just download source code and type to build and install package

makepkg -is

then manipulate with kodi.service

Most users should not /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config since the created X server becomes the controlling process of the VT to which it is bound. Most users does not mean all users. There have been reports of some AMD users still requiring this file. As well, users of Xorg's native modesetting driver may also require it.

The recommendation is to first try starting kodi.service without it, but if the service fails to start X, you may need to create /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config which should contain the following:

needs_root_rights = yes

Note that this service was provided by the Arch Linux maintainers of the official kodi package, but was removed upon the 1.16-1 release of Xorg.