General Navigation

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. See example here.

List

Default display method for many screens, shows a list of e.g. files and folders. See example here.

Big Icons

Bigger icons, suitable for example for Music Albums or HDTV resolutions, icons of size ??? are displayed.

Wide

Big Wide

Bigger Wide icons, very fitting for TV shows in Library Mode, See example here.

Navigating in XBMC with the Xbox controller

Movement Up / Down / Left / Right

Directional Pad

Page up/down: L/R trigger
Select/play a file:
Back to previous menu:
Back to parent directory: Back

The different input controller default mapping may be seen here.

File:Global Controller.png