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* Book reader mode and page controls: You also need to know about screen rotation to make this work properly. | * Book reader mode and page controls: You also need to know about screen rotation to make this work properly. | ||
* Keyboard switching key, replacing ×÷ on keyboards for countries and languages using a non-Latin alphabet or other kind of writing system. | * Keyboard switching key, replacing ×÷ on keyboards for countries and languages using a non-Latin alphabet or other kind of writing system. | ||
==Open Firmware== | |||
* At boot time, press and hold the escape key to get into Open Firmware. | |||
* In the Terminal activity, execute the command | |||
echo y > /proc/sysrq-trigger | |||
See [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FORTH FORTH] for a brief introduction to the FORTH programming language, which Open Firmware is written in, plus links to other resources. | |||
Be careful with OFW. You can seriously mess up or brick your XO with it. You might want to experiment in gForth first. | |||
==Subpages== | ==Subpages== | ||