Keyboard shortcuts
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| 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 |