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 (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