I’ve used Kodi on Ubuntu 20.04 for however long that’s been around and whatever was the latest Kodi version available at that time. I use a generic wired keypad to navigate most of the time, especially watching videos.
I upgraded my home theater pc to a current motherboard and an i3 processor. I installed Xubuntu (24.04) minimal (similar to my 20.04 version).
There are a few other issues Kodi, but the most serious is that Kodi does not respond to any of the key on my keypads except enter, backspace, /, +, – and numlock, which execute useful functions (e.g., backspace takes you higher in UI hierarchy). But the arrow keys are really what I need and they are dead.
I have verified that the keypad is sending signals to Ubuntu and it processes them such that I can see their codes of websites that display keyboard entries.
I have looked at input configuration and nothing really made sense, though I selected IBM Keyboard as the device. I don’t recall how it was configured before.
I have tried it on another Ubuntu box that I have (Xubuntu 22.04) resulting in the same behavior.
All other Ubuntu apps honor all keys on the keypad.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
BTW, I am proficient in Python and I wonder how hard it would be to write a device driver for it, especially if I could find source code for say, a keyboard.
Thank you.