For me it didn't; by commenting out these last three lines I got it to return to a normal screen when started for the first time, but not when starting it a second time. The real problem is that kodi doesn't exit cleanly, but often crashes, when you exit. Killing kodi.bin from a SSH terminal restar...

Hey.
Thanks for the guide. However, it seems like commenting out the last three lines in the config is actually what causes the blank screen on exit. At least for me, if I don't comment it out Kodi exits correctly. But if I do as you suggest i need to ssh to the pi and run sudo killall kodi.