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The Home Screen

The Home Screen is the default starting position when XBMC loads. From here you access all other sections of XBMC, starting from the top:

Favourites File:Home.shutdown.jpg The Shutdown Menu

Options Common to Subsections

View

Allows you to switch between several different methods of displaying content in the right display panel of XBMC.
The available options are:

Icons: Default display method for many screens, icons of size ??? are displayed.
List: Default display method for many screens, shows a list of e.g. files and folders.
Big Icons: Bigger icons, suitable for example for Music Albums or HDTV resolutions, icons of size ??? are displayed.
Wide: Wide icons. Size??
Big Wide: Bigger Wide icons, very suitable for TV shows in Library Mode. Size??

Default View can be set in the various Settings.

Icons View

List View

File:Mymusic.jpg

Big Icons View

Big Wide View

Sort by

Controls the sorting of the items in the right pane. The arrow to the right controls whether the items are sorted in ascending or descending order.

Name: Sorts content alphabetically by filename, folders and archives are sorted first.
File: Sorts content alphabetically by file / foldername, folders and files are treated alike.

Default sorting can be set in the various Settings.

Navigating in XBMC with the Standard Controllers

Main Article: Default Controls.

Function	Control	Remote
Movement Up / Down / Left / Right	Directional Pad	Directional Arrows
Page up/down	L/R trigger	N/A
Select/play a file		Select
Back to previous menu	Back	Menu
Back to parent directory		Back

Global Keymap Controller

File:Global Controller.png

Global Keymap Remote

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 [[image:home.jpg|360px]]
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-*[[Programs]]
+*[[My Programs|Programs]]
-*[[Pictures]]
+*[[My Pictures|Pictures]]
-*[[Videos]]
+*[[My Videos|Videos]]
-*[[Music]]
+*[[My Music|Music]]
-*[[Weather]]
+*[[Weather|Weather]]
-*[[Settings]]
+*[[User Interface Settings|Settings]]
-*[[Scripts]]
+*[[Using Scripts|Scripts]]
-*[[Filemanager]]
+*[[My Files|Filemanager]]
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 :Bigger icons, suitable for example for Music Albums or HDTV resolutions, icons of size ??? are displayed.
 ;Wide
+:Wide icons. Size??
 ;Big Wide
-:Bigger Wide icons, very fitting for [[TV Shows|TV shows]] in [[Video Library|Library Mode]].
+:Bigger Wide icons, very suitable for [[TV Shows|TV shows]] in [[Video Library|Library Mode]]. Size??
+Default View can be set in the various [[Settings]].
 |
 [[Image:Myvideos.jpg|center|thumb|100px|Icons View]]
-[[Image:Files.mymusic.jpg|center|thumb|100px|Files View]]
+[[Image:Files.mymusic.jpg|center|thumb|100px|List View]]
 |
 [[Image:Mymusic.jpg|center|thumb|100px|Big Icons View]]
 [[Image:Wide1.jpg|center|thumb|100px|Big Wide View]]
 |}
+===Sort by===
+Controls the sorting of the items in the right pane. The arrow to the right controls whether the items are sorted in ascending or descending order.
+;Name
+:Sorts content alphabetically by filename, folders and archives are sorted first.
+;File
+:Sorts content alphabetically by file / foldername, folders and files are treated alike.
+Default sorting can be set in the various [[Settings]].
 ==Navigating in XBMC with the Standard Controllers==
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 [[image:xbox-dvd-remote-global.jpg|Global Controls]]
+[[category:Incomplete]]
 [[category:Navigation]]

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Revision as of 14:58, 26 May 2007

Contents

The Home Screen

Options Common to Subsections