Touchscreen & User interface

Help and Support
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This isn’t so much about technical issues, but rather usability.

I am using the latest OSMC, A Pi 1 B and a big 22" AOC touchscreen I bought a few years ago.
Touch control is recognized and works like a charm and the osmc standard skin isn’t so bad for touch - at least basically, in fact, it is far from perfect.

I am having quite a hard time navigating through the menu and I don’t get why.

On the main screen it is all tapping and everything is fine.
In the deeper menus, e.g. media, addons & stuff, I can drag and scroll but my click focus is in the middle of the screen. So tapping an item on the list does not work - I have to scroll until it is highlighted (=yellow) and then tap - and hope I don’t issue a drag command.

By trying and some luck I found that I can access the main menu by a long touch.
But If I do this - how can I go back to my playing video? With a keyboard attached it is the “Tab” button - yet there is no way to get back for pure touch control.

Another thing: Volume control? Without keyboard? Nope.

Any hints? It basically works well but there are many things that could go better.

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Do you also have problems with the Confluence skin?

Currently there is a beta test going on for Kodi v17 which includes both a new OSMC skin and also a Kodi skin especially designed for touch screens called eTouchy.

You can participate in the beta trial by following the instructions in this thread:

You should have a better experience on the touch optimised skin. It is hoped that this will launch as the default stable version (with kodi v17) in the first few months of 2017.