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I have a System 76 laptop with Pop_OS and I have it set up to dual boot to MX Linux 21.
I have been using it fine that way for over a year.
I have Kodi installed but I have not used it.
This morning when I used grub to boot to MX it booted to a Kodi screen instead and I can find no way to get to MX. I have rebooted several times with the same results.
I can boot into Pop_OS but every time I try to boot to MX I get a Kodi screen instead.
I don't know how this happened or how to get back to my usual MX linux.
When I try to boot to MX it does first show the wildflower screen before then going to the Kodi screen.

In the top of the forum:


Important information
--If in starting your system it boots to an unwanted Desktop, right click desktop, then select leave and logout. At the
login screen there is a session chooser at the top of the screen


Might that solve it?

I tried that. Right click doesn't work on the Kodi screen. Or actually it seems to work the same as left click and doesn't give me options.

Woodsman7077 wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 5:46 pm I tried that. Right click doesn't work on the Kodi screen. Or actually it seems to work the same as left click and doesn't give me options.

If you want to logout but can't find the logout icon to click,
you may want to use the key-combo
[Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Backspace]
This would terminate the X-session and would show the logon-screen,
where you can select the other (non-Kodi) X-session by clicking
on the hamburger-icon on the top-middle of the screen.

Doesn't the power option menu in Kodi offer a "Exit" option?

Thank you. The little hamburger icon worked. I didn't realize it was there.
Both the exit option mentioned by Neil and the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace took me to a logon screen which without using the hamburger icon just took me back to Kodi.

So...Kodi is installed in MX, but not Pop_OS?

Are you using MX's GRUB, or another's?

Kodi, if installed in MX, does add an entry to the choices in MX's login menu (not GRUB) to boot straight to Kodi's desktop, which is probably what is happening, so you need to click the little "hamburger" menu on the login screen and choose your regular desktop.