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On Ubuntu server 16.04, with only X installed and no window manager, I can still launch Kodi without the --standalone switch. For example from a local console:

xinit kodi -- vtx

This leads me to ask: what is the difference between "kodi" and "kodi --standalone" if I can still launch kodi without calling the "kodi-standalone" or "--standalone" switch?

I understand kodi is for launching with a window manager, and kodi-standalone is a script that launches kodi with the --standalone switch.

My question is why, since I have with no WM installed, do both kodi and kodi-standalone (or kodi --standalone) launch just fine?

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  • https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=237093 – EODCraft Staff Mar 05 '18 at 22:58
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    Lol i necro'd that thread, 3rd post. Also, wsnipex describes normal as running on top of a window manager, and standalone as running on top of plain X. I have no WM installed, and can launch it both ways, so perhaps my question wasn't clear enough. – sunshine Mar 05 '18 at 23:00

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Accoding to user FernetMenta over at the Kodi forums:

The option standalone has nothing to do with a window manager (docs/wiki is wrong). With standalone Kodi is i.e. allowed to power the system down and users can change refresh rate in settings dialog.

Running Kodi without a window manager may work but is not a supported and tested scenario.

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  • The doc is wrong, and "kodi" without standalone has the power off buttons, maybe your'e wrong. and not the doc. – pim Jun 29 '18 at 15:49
  • @pim at least he seems to be right about the refresh rate settings. – jarno Apr 13 '19 at 09:44