Basic controls

This page describes the basic controls that are used in most areas of Kodi, as well as the Kodi home screen. This page assumes you are using the default skin for Kodi, Confluence.

Contextual menu
The context menu gives you quick access to some functions that also can be accessed by the keyboard directly (e.g. Queue item), while other functions (e.g. Change content) are only accessible from the context menu.

You can bring up the context menu either by:
 * right-clicking with the mouse.
 * pressing the key.
 * pressing the button on a MCE remote.

Examples of the context menu:


 * See below for specific explanations of the contextual menu on different menus and areas of Kodi:
 * In the video library
 * In the music library
 * Favourites, Playlists, and the File manager are mostly controlled from the contextual menu.

Sidebar menu
Many options, mostly related to view control, can be accessed with the left hand sidebar menu.

Shutdown menu
Pressing on the keyboard, or by selecting the Shutdown icon in the lower left corner of the default Confluence skin the home screen brings up the shutdown menu.

The options on this menu are from top to bottom:


 * Exit
 * Exits Kodi to your operating system.


 * Power off system
 * Powers down your system


 * Custom Shutdown Timer
 * Kodi will shutdown your computer after you enter the countdown time.


 * Suspend
 * Suspends your computer.


 * Hibernate
 * Hibernates your computer.


 * Reboot
 * Restarts your computer.

On screen keyboard

 * Kodi can use USB keyboards or you can use the remote control-friendly on-screen-keyboard.


 * Kodi for iOS will use the native iOS on-screen-keyboard. This also allows iOS to have clipboard paste support.


 * Windows, Mac OS X, and iOS have clipboard paste support for text entry.