Keyboard shortcuts

  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.

  For the general public

• the Ctrl key has a solid diamond on it (♦);
• the Alt key has an open diamond on it (♢);
• the Esc key has a white × inside a black circle ();
• the Tab key has an arrow and a bar on it (⟶|);
• the Tilde key has a tilde on it (~);
• the Frame key has an open rectangle on it (☐);
• the F1 key is the same as the Neighborhood view key ();
• the F2 key is the same as the Friends view key ();
• the F3 key is the same as the Home view key ();
• the F4 key is the same as the Activity view key ();
• the Delete key is the same as Fn-Erase.

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 activity
Ctrl-Esc	Quit activity
Alt-Enter	Toggle full-screen mode
Alt-Space	Toggle tray visibility (works in Browse but not in Record)
Ctrl-u	View source in Browse
Fn-Space	View source (system wide, although not enabled in all applications yet)
Ctrl-Alt-Erase	Restart Sugar
Alt-1	Screen capture saved to Journal
Ctrl-Alt-F1 (F1 is the Neighborhood key)	Console 1
Ctrl-Alt-F2 (F2 is the Friends key)	Console 2
Ctrl-Alt-F3 (F3 is the Home key)	X Windows
Esc-Frame-Right Arrow-Fn (the four corners keys on the keyboard)	Recalibrate touchpad (AKA Four finger salute); Fn should be pressed last.