Keyboard

XFCE

Key	Function
Shoulder Button L	Shift
Shoulder Button R	Ctrl
D-pad	Cursor Keys
L-Nub	Mouse Cursor
R-Nub	Mousebutton Mode (L=L mousebutton click, U=Double-L-click, R=R mousebutton click, D=Middle mousebutton click)
Game A	Home
Game B	End
Game Y	PgUp
Game X	PgDn
Fn key	Sticky, so can be pressed before a key which you want to modify.
Shift-Enter	Compose mode. Compose mode allows <shift><enter><fn> s a to combine " and a to get a special character, for example.
Alt/Ctrl/Start(1 sec)	Kill(long hold)
Pandora key	Quick-press pulls up start menu. Longer press brings up kill-tasks menu. Hold and flick power switch does a hard-reset of the Pandora (in case of software crashes; see also power modes).

• In XFCE, if a program is greater than the Pandora's screen resolution, you can scroll by holding down shift (or the left shoulder button) then clicking anywhere in the window and dragging it around.

Minimenu

Key	Function
Shoulder Buttons	Move left or right through the categories
D-pad	move through the PNDs and folders
Select	Options
Game A	Toggle detail panel
Game B or Start	Select item (run PND or go inside folder)
Game Y	Read documentation for PND, if it exists
Game X	If detail panel is on, remind yourself of controls
Keyboard	Type a letter to skip to the first PND beginning with the letter.
Space	App menu

• In minimenu, pressing Y when an icon is highlighted brings up the readme files.

Keycodes

This table might be useful if you're trying to map keys in some program, or writing a program:

Pandora button	Keycode	Hex Equivalent
Space	key 32	0020
Pandora	key 147	0093
D-pad up	key 273	0111
D-pad down	key 274	0112
D-pad right	key 275	0113
D-pad left	key 276	0114
Game A	key 278	0116
Game B	key 279	0117
Game Y	key 280	0118
Game X	key 281	0119
Shoulder L	key 303	012f
Shoulder R	key 305	0131
Select	key 306	0132
Start	key 308	0134

Sources: 1, 2, 3 4 (note: the last two links give different keycodes for the gaming buttons. Possibly both numbers will work?)

Other notes

• In DOSBox, in order to use the colon symbol, you have to press shift (left shoulder button) + Fn + ";". This also goes for the underscore symbol.

See also:

• Keyboard layout changer
• Keyboard remapping

History

In the months before the first preorders were taken, there was much discussion and community voting about the best layout. This was one of the final votes. The final layout was different from either one of the two most popular community proposals, but incorporated some of the suggestions such as having a "Pandora" button.

Matrix

The matrix layout is detailed on p.20 of the Hardware hacker's guide (here). A more readable version appears below. A .svg version of the Pandora's keyboard layout (made by cosurgi) can be downloaded here. (broken link)

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