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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:

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

Default View can be set in the various Settings.

Icons View
List View
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Big 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.

Navigating in XBMC

Main Article: Default Controls.

Videos Navigation and Control

Music Navigation and Control

Keyboard and Mouse

Keyboard Mapping

Mouse

Global Mouse

Global Keymap Xbox Controller

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

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Global Keymap Xbox DVD Remote

Global Controls