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Home screen
RSS ticker
Kodi can display an RSS feed on the home screen of the default skin/interface, as well as any other skin that supports RSS feeds. By default, the RSS news feed is taken from https://kodi.tv, but the feed can be changed to almost any RSS feed.
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 C key .
- pressing the guide button on a MCE remote.
Examples of the context menu:
- Contextmenu2.png
The context menu in the YouTube add-on.
- See below for specific explanations of the contextual menu on different menus and areas of XBMC
- In the video library
- In the music library
- Favourites, Playlists, and the File manager are mostly controlled from the contextual menu.
Favourites
Favourites is a simple but useful feature that allows you to gather a selection of different items into one easily accessible location on the Main Menu. It allows quick access to commonly used items.
Pressing S 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 XBMC to your operating system.
- Power off system
- Powers down your system
- Custom Shutdown Timer
- XBMC will shutdown your computer after you enter the countdown time.
- Suspend
- Suspends your computer.
- Hibernate
- Hibernates your computer.
- Reboot
- Restarts your computer.
File manager
The File Manager allows the maintenace of files from within Kodi on platforms that have no underlying and easily accessible operating system. It will allow you to perform functions such as Move, Copy and Delete to name a few.