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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:

Home.jpg

Home.favorites.jpg 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:

Icons
Default display method for many screens, icons of size ??? are displayed. See example here.
List
Default display method for many screens, shows a list of e.g. files and folders. See example here.
Big Icons
Bigger icons, suitable for example for Music Albums or HDTV resolutions, icons of size ??? are displayed.
Wide
Big Wide
Bigger Wide icons, very fitting for TV shows in Library Mode, See example here.

Library Mode

Navigating in XBMC with the Standard Controllers

Main Article: Default Controls.
Function Control Remote
Movement Up / Down / Left / Right Directional Pad Btn dpad.png Directional Arrows
Page up/down L/R trigger N/A
Select/play a file Btn a.png Select
Back to previous menu Back Menu
Back to parent directory Btn b.png Back

Global Keymap Controller

File:Global Controller.png

Global Keymap Remote

Global Controls