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nxdsktop help

Contains details on how to use the nxdsktop dekstop environment and its subprojects such as nxjpeg.

Quick keyboard shortcuts:

  • CTRL+A - force closes nxdsktop and Nano X
  • While viewing/editing a text file:
    • CTRL+X - closes an open file in text editor. The editor will propose to save the file.
    • CTRL+W - save file

Editing a file

By default a edit is used, but this can be changed to vi for example. edit is a clone of mined editor from Minix and vi is a version of Elvis editor which is clone of vi. Here is a complete list of commands for edit/mined, currently the default editor.

Viewing images

There are 3 color modes:

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