Sugar Hotkeys
- F1 for Neighborhood view (wireless network view), See Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/Zoom Metaphor.
- F2 for Groups view,
- F3 for Home view,
- F4 for Activity view,
- Ctrl + 1 in the Home view to select the first home view, usually the activity ring,
- Ctrl + 2 in the Home view to select the second home view, usually the activity list,
- Alt in the Home view to start a new activity instead of resume previous,
- Alt + Tab to change between Activities,
- Alt + Space to make an activity tray invisible or visible,
- Alt + Shift + Tab to change between Activities backwards,
- Alt + 1 to make a screenshot, saved to Journal,
- Alt + Shift + f or F6 to make the Frame appear or disappear,
- Alt + Shift + o or F5 to switch to the Journal,
- Alt + Shift + m for My Settings control panel,
- Alt + Shift + v for View Source,
- Alt + Shift + h for View Help, and Social Help,
- Ctrl + c to copy to clipboard,
- Ctrl + v to paste from clipboard,
- Ctrl + z to undo,
- Ctrl + y to redo,
- Ctrl + q to quit an Activity, (some old activities, other than Terminal, have a bug and ignore Ctrl + q. If you find them, please report them),
- Esc to turn off fullscreen mode in an activity, to close My Settings, View Source, or View Help dialogs.
Activities
Turtle Art Hotkeys
See Activities/Turtle Art#Keyboard shortcuts.
Terminal Hotkeys
The Terminal activity must pass all Ctrl keys to the shell, so all the Sugar hotkeys starting with Ctrl must also have Shift pressed:
- Ctrl + Shift + c = copy to clipboard
- Ctrl + Shift + v = paste from clipboard
- Ctrl + Shift + q = quit activity
Emulator Hotkeys
- Alt + Shift + q to quit Sugar
Emulator hotkeys work in sugar-build
, sugar-emulator
or if the environment variable SUGAR_DEVELOPER
is defined. They do not function in sugar-runner
.
Some of the Sugar hotkeys may not work in an emulator.
The undiscoverables
- Hidden Features: The Undiscoverable
Keys that don't work but could
- Esc is not handled by the majority of activities; because they usually have no dialogs.
See also
The olpc:Keyboard shortcuts for the OLPC XO-1.