Keyboard shortcuts

This page provides a listing of the agreed upon shortcuts for the system at large and for various controls within the activities, which should be referenced for consistency across them. For a high level philosophical on the usage of various modifier keys, please refer to the HIG.

Keystroke	Description
Startup
X Gamepad Button	Interrupts boot, providing the Open Firmware ok prompt. You may have to press the Esc key during the countdown (q2c25).
O Gamepad Button	Boots from backup OS image, for system recovery. (not yet in a stable build)
Left D-Pad Button	Turns off "pretty boot" in firmware following q2c27; enables pretty boot in earlier builds.
Right D-Pad Button	Try it out.
X and Check Gamepad Buttons	Skip upgrade, just writing an activation lease to USB key and boot. (If your XO doesn't have a check key, use the 'O' key instead)
X and Square Gamepad Buttons	Wipes user directory, performing a factory-fresh install. (Appropriate for upgrading machines straight from the factory)
Sugar/System
Ctrl-Tab	Cycle forward through running activities
Shift-Ctrl-Tab	Cycle backward through running activities
Ctrl-Tilde	Cycle forward through running instances of the current activity
Shift-Ctrl-Tilde	Cycle backward through running instances of the current activity