Keyboard shortcuts
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This page is monitored by the OLPC team.
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.
Please see cheat codes for a list of boot options.
The Ctrl key has a solid diamond on it (♦); The Alt key has an open diamond on it (♢);
| Keystroke | Description |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Ctrl-q | Quit |
| Ctrl-u | View source |
| Fn-Space | View source |
| Ctrl-alt-erase | Restart Sugar |
| Alt-1 | Screen shot saved to Journal |
| X(top-left)-frame(top-right)-right arrow-fn | Recallibrate touchpad (aka Four finger salute) 
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