Keyboard controls
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Template:XBMC wiki toc Keymapping specific to your particular installation can be observed in Keyboard.xml in the System folder of your installation.
Common platform-independent keymapping
| Key | Function | Notes |
| Any Single character | That button on the keyboard, Case INSENSITIVE | |
| O | Displays CPU usage and video diagnostic information | |
| P | Play | Starts slideshow during pictures view. |
| Space | Pause | |
| X | Stop | |
| L | Cycle subtitles | |
| T | Toggle subtitles on and off | |
| F | Fast Forward | |
| R | Rewind | |
| Left-arrow | Left | |
| Right-arrow | Right | |
| Up-arrow | Up | |
| Down-arrow | Down | |
| Page Up | Page Up | |
| Page Down | Page Down | |
| Enter (Return) | Select | |
| Backspace | Parent Directory | |
| Q | Queue | |
| W | Marked as Watched | |
| M | Activate OSD Player Controls | |
| S | Activate Shutdown Menu | |
| Esc | Home menu
Remembers the last menu-position when you return to it |
|
| I | Media Info | |
| Application key | Context Menu | |
| C | Context Menu | |
| Period | Skip Next | |
| Comma | Skip Previous | |
| Tab | Toggles fullscreen modes
Either visualisation or video playback |
|
| A | Audio offset
Only when video playback is displayed fullscreen |
|
| Z | Zoom mode
Only when video playback is displayed fullscreen |
Cycling: Normal, Zoom, Strecth 4:3, Wide zoom, Strecth 16:9, Original size, Custom |
| Print Screen | Screenshot | |
| Minus (-) | Volume Down | |
| Plus (+) | Volume Up | |
| 0 (Zero) | Number 0 | |
| 1 (One) | Number 1 | |
| 2 (Two) | Number 2 | |
| 3 (Three) | Number 3 | |
| 4 (Four) | Number 4 | |
| 5 (Five) | Number 5 | |
| 6 (Six) | Number 6 | |
| 7 (Seven) | Number 7 | |
| 8 (Eight) | Number 8 | |
| 9 (Nine) | Number 9 | |
| Backslash (\) | Toggle Application Full Screen / Windowed mode | |
| End | Shutdown XBMC
Only from Main Menu and without confirmation |
List of unused letter on keyboard while in fullscreen playback mode: B, D, E, G, H, J, K, N, U, and Y
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