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The Home Screen

The Home Screen is the default starting position when XBMC loads. From here you access all other sections of XBMC, starting from the top:

Favourites File:Home.shutdown.jpg The Shutdown Menu

Options Common to Subsections

View

Allows you to switch between several different methods of displaying content in the right display panel of XBMC.
The available options are:

Thumbnails: Default display method for many screens, icons of size ??? are displayed.
List: Default display method for many screens, shows a list of e.g. files and folders.

Default View can be set in the various Settings.

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Big Icons View

List View

Icons View

Big Wide View

Sort by

Controls the sorting of the items in the right pane. The arrow to the right controls whether the items are sorted in ascending or descending order.

Name: Sorts content alphabetically by filename, folders and archives are sorted first.
File: Sorts content alphabetically by file / foldername, folders and files are treated alike.

Default sorting can be set in the various Settings.

Context Menus

Throughout XBMC you can bring up a context menu that will offer a selection of functions you can perform on the currently selected item or in the context of your current screen.

The Context menu can be brought up by pressing C or the 'Windows' Application key or Menu button on the Keyboard or by pressing the right mouse button on the appropriate item.

On the Mac version of XBMC, the context menu can be displayed by holding the Menu button on the Apple Remote or by pressing C on the keyboard.

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Music Library

Add Source

Videos

Set Content

Navigating in XBMC

Main Article: Default Controls.

Keyboard Mapping

Mouse

Global Mouse

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 On the Mac version of XBMC, the context menu can be displayed by holding the '''Menu''' button on the Apple Remote or by pressing '''C''' on the keyboard.
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-[[Videos Navigation and Control]]
+:''See also:'' [[Videos Navigation and Control]]
-[[Music Navigation and Control]]
+:''See also:'' [[Music Navigation and Control]]
-===[[Keyboard and Mouse]]===
 ====[[Global Keyboard|Keyboard Mapping]]====
 ====[[Global_Mouse|Mouse]]====
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-===Global Keymap Xbox Controller===
-{| border="1" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0"
-!Function
-!Control
-!Remote
-|-
-|!align="right" |Movement Up / Down / Left / Right
-|Directional Pad [[Image:btn_dpad.png ]]
-|Directional Arrows
-|-
-|!align="right" |Page up/down
-|align="center"|'''L/R trigger'''
-|align="center"|N/A
-|-
-|!align="right" |Select/play a file
-|align="center"|[[Image:btn_a.png ]]
-|align="center"|'''Select'''
-|-
-|!align="right" |Back to previous menu
-|align="center"|'''Back'''
-|align="center"|'''Menu'''
-|-
-|!align="right" |Back to parent directory
-|align="center"|[[Image:btn_b.png ]]
-|align="center"|'''Back'''
-|}
-[[image:Global Controller.png]]
-===Global Keymap Xbox DVD Remote===
-[[image:xbox-dvd-remote-global.jpg|Global Controls]]
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The Home Screen

Options Common to Subsections