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This article is part of the Extended Second Life Knowledge Base that includes advanced and specialized information. This information was originally provided by Linden Lab, but is not actively maintained nor guaranteed to be accurate. Linden Lab does not certify nor assume any responsibility for this information.

See the official Second Life Knowledge Base for the most current information.

Controls and Movement in the Old Knowledge Base

• Moving your avatar
• Camera Controls
• Shortcut keys
• Setting your Home location
• Using SLurls
• Using gestures
• Setting Preferences

Gestures allow your avatar to perform a variety of animations, sounds, or other actions automatically as you chat. You can trigger gestures with pre-defined function keys, or make them automatically play when you say a specific word or phrase in conversation.

If you don't know how to perform a gesture that you already have in your inventory, you can easily find out.

1. View your Inventory and open the Gestures folder.
2. Right-click the appropriate gesture and choose Open.
3. Look at the entry for Trigger. The gesture plays whenever it encounters this text in chat.
4. Or, look at the Shortcut Key. You can press this key (or key combination) any time in or out of chat to perform this gesture.

A note on gesture performance

Second Life® currently performs only the first gesture it finds in chat. If you place a later gesture in the same chat line, it is not read as a gesture. You can often use this to your advantage; for example, if you're trying to tell someone how to bow: You type:

Just type /bow
You say: Just type <avatar bows>

You type: /bow Just type /bow
You say: Just type /bow <avatar bows>