Keyboard shortcuts
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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 (as of q2c28) | |
| X Gamepad Button | Toggles the state of secure booting (if the machine is configured for secure booting, this key makes it not-secure and vice-versa). To get the Open Firmware ok prompt, you have to be in not-secure state, and then press the Esc key during the countdown. |
| Check Gamepad Button | Turns on additional boot progress reports - text and additional icons. Also makes Linux startup text visible. |
| O Gamepad Button | Boots from backup OS image, for system recovery. |
| Rotate Button (below direction pad) | Shows the UL warning screen while booting. |
| Right D-Pad Button | Try it out. |
| X and Check (tick) Gamepad Buttons | If an Autoreinstallation image is present, skip upgrade, just writing an activation lease to USB key and boot. (If your XO doesn't have a check or tick key, use the 'O' key instead) |
| X and Square Gamepad Buttons | If an Autoreinstallation image is present, 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 |
| Ctrl-c | Copy to clipboard |
| Ctrl-v | Paste from clipboard |
| Ctrl-x | Cut (and copy to clipboard) |
| Alt-c | Quit |
| Ctrl-u | View source |
| Fn-Space | View source |
| Ctrl-alt-erase | Restart Sugar |
| X(top-left)-frame(top-right)-right arrow-fn | Recallibrate touchpad (aka Four finger salute) 
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