Keyboard controls

Keymapping specific to your particular installation can be observed in Keyboard.xml in the System folder of your installation.

Common platform-independent keymapping

Key	Global	Video playback	Music visualisation	Pictures slideshow
A		Audio offset
B
C	Contextual menu
D
E
F	Fast forward	Fast forward	Fast forward
G
H
I	Info	Info	Info	Info
J
K
L		Next Subtitle	Lock Preset
M	Player controls (OSD)	Player controls (OSD)	Player controls (OSD)	Player controls (OSD)
N			"Now playing" playlist
O	Displays CPU usage & video diagnostic info	Codec info
P	Play	Play	Visualisation preset list
Q	Queue
R	Rewind	Rewind	Rewind
S	Shutdown menu		Show preset
T		Toggle subtitles on and off	Codec Info
U
V			Visualisation settings
W	Marked as watched
X	Stop	Stop
Y
Z		Zoom/aspect ratio
0	0
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	7
8	8
9	9
Space	Pause/Play	Pause/Play	Pause/Play
←	Left	Step back	Previous
→	Right	Step forward	Next
↑	Up	Big step forward	Increase rating
↓	Down	Big step back	Decrease rating
PageUp	Page up
PageDown	Page down
↵ Enter return	Select	OSD controls	OSD controls
← Backspace	Back
Esc	Previous menu	Exit full screen
. period	Skip forward	Skip forward	Skip forward
, comma	Skip backward	Skip backward	Skip backward
" quote		Small step back (7sec)
Tab ⇆	Fullscreen mode	Fullscreen mode
PrintSrc	Screenshot	Screenshot	Screenshot	Screenshot
- minus	Volume down	Volume down	Volume down	Volume down
+ plus	Volume up	Volume up	Volume up	Volume up
= equals	Volume up	Volume up	Volume up	Volume up
\ backslash	Toggle application windowed mode	Toggle application windowed mode	Toggle application windowed mode	Toggle application windowed mode
[ left bracket		Big step forward, or next chapter
] right bracket		Big step backward, or previous chapter

Global common mouse controls

Key	Description
Left Click on item	Select
Middle Click on item	Queue to playlist
Right Click on item	Context menu
Right Click on blank area	Back
Mouse Wheel Up	Up
Mouse Wheel Down	Down

Platform specific keymapping

Live and Linux keymapping

'Windows' Application key: Context menu

Mac keymapping

⌘Q to close

⌘H and ⌘M to iconize

⌘F to toggle fullscreen

⌘S to take screenshots inside XBMC

Windows keymapping

'Windows' Application key: Context menu