ServSwitch User's Manual

MATRIX SERVSWITCH™

Background color, text color

Use these fields to set the background colors and text colors, respectively, of the

connection-status and computer-select screens. The “solid” colors available are

black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, and white; these are opaque and

cause the window to hide part of the video coming from the CPUs. The

“transparent” colors available are clear, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan,

and white; these are translucent, so the video coming from the CPUs is tinted but

can be seen through the window. (In fact, the “clear” setting makes the

background or text completely transparent; don’t set both to clear, or the window

will become totally invisible, and you will probably have to reset the Matrix

ServSwitch to its factory defaults to get the window to reappear.)

Factory defaults are solid cyan for the background color and black for the text

color.

Position

Sets and maintains the position of the connection-status box, which can be

anywhere on-screen, even at different video resolutions. Use arrow keys to move

the position box, and press [Enter] when the desired position is reached. The

position setting wraps at the edges of the screen. Horizontal (X) and vertical (Y)

positions are updated in the position field. Range of horizontal movement is 0 to

64. Range of vertical movement is 0 to 99. Factory default is X=25 and Y=45.

Fadeout

Sets the time that the connection-status box is displayed before it disappears. If you

set this parameter to 0, the connection-status box will not be displayed at all. If you

set it to 255, the connection-status box will always be displayed. Some monitors will

not display the connection-status box if the fadeout time is less than the time it

takes to synchronize to a new video signal. If you aren’t seeing the connection-

status box when you switch CPUs, try setting the fadeout to a longer time. Factory

default is 5 seconds.