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CHAPTER 4: Configuration
4.2.7 S ETTING THE
H OTKEY S EQUENCE
You can access many of the Multi-Head ServSwitch’s main functions (such as CPU-
channel selection, autoscanning, and locking) by sending commands from the
shared keyboard. Each command must start with a “hotkey sequence” (series of
keystrokes) that alerts the Switch to interpret the keyboard data that follows it as a
command. The default hotkey sequence is [Ctrl] and [Alt] pressed simultaneously.
If any of the applications on computers attached to the Switch require this
sequence to trigger important application-specific functions, you will have to
change the Switch’s hotkey sequence with the “H” command (type
[H][digit][Enter]).
Alternative hotkey sequence #5 is particularly suitable for extended keyboards
where additional keys can be programmed to act as combinations of other keys.
Such keyboards are supplied with many Gateway™ computers. If you program one
of these “spare” keys to produce both hotkey keystrokes, or if you program a set of
these keys to produce the hotkey and channel-number keystrokes, you’ll be able to
select channels, lock the Switch, etc., with as few as one or two keypresses.
H1 Either of the left and right [Ctrl] keys and either of the left and right [Alt]
keys together (default)
H2 Either of the left and right [Ctrl] keys and either of the left and right
[Shift] keys together
H3 Either of the left and right [Alt] keys and either of the left and right [Shift]
keys together
H4 Right [Alt] key only
H5 Both the left and right [Alt] keys together
H6 The left [Ctrl] key and the left [Alt] key together
H7 The right [Ctrl] and the right [Alt] key together
H8 No hotkey enabled; the hotkey-dependent functions can’t be accessed from
the keyboard