General Navigation

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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:

Programs Pictures Videos Music Weather Settings Scripts Filemanager

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

Main Article: Default Controls.

Keyboard and Mouse

Mouse

Global Mouse

Global Keymap Xbox Controller

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 Xbox DVD Remote