Specifications

MULTI-HEAD SERVSWITCH™

5.5 Keyboard Control: Hotkey Commands

You can control many functions on the Multi-Head ServSwitch—such as CPU-

channel selection, autoscanning, or locking—from the keyboard, using commands

triggered with the Switch’s currently selected hotkey combination. All of the

hotkey-control commands are invoked by holding down the one or two hotkeys

and then pressing a command key. By default, the two hotkeys are [Ctrl] and [Alt],

although other keystroke combinations can be selected (see Section 4.2.7).

Normally, when you send a hotkey command, you have to release the hotkeys

and the command key before you can send another one. The one exception to this

rule is {Hotkeys} + [Tab], the “switch to next CPU channel” command; you can

“tab through” the channels by holding down the hotkeys and repeatedly pressing

[Tab].

The hotkey commands are summarized below and on the next page. Note that

to generate the numeric digits in the commands that contain them, you need to

press the number keys on the top row of the main section of the keyboard, not the

number keys on the keypad; the Switch will not recognize keypad numbers.

• Use {Hotkeys} + [x], where x is a number from one to two (on the 2-port

models) or one to four (on the 4-port models), to switch to the corresponding

CPU channel. If you try to select a channel with a higher number than the

Switch has ports, the Switch will ignore the command and pass it through to

the currently selected computer.

• Use {Hotkeys} + [Tab] to switch to the next channel in numeric sequence (if

the Switch is set to “U7”) or to the next active channel (if the Switch is set to

“U8”); refer to Section 4.2.7.

• Use {Hotkeys} + [A] to have the Switch start autoscanning (briefly displaying

the video from each CPU channel in turn). You can control whether or not it

scans empty channels, and for how long it pauses at each channel, with the

“L1” through “L4” and “Tx” configuration commands respectively (see

Section 4.2.3). To stop autoscanning, simply select a fixed channel using the

Switch’s front-panel pushbutton, the keyboard hotkeys, or the mouse (if

mouse switching is enabled and the mouse is a 3-button or IntelliMouse type).

• Use {Hotkeys} + [0] to select nonexistent “channel zero” in order to shut off

the video output from the Switch to the shared monitors. The Switch’s front-

panel display will show “0”. You can re-enable video by selecting another

channel through the keyboard, front-panel pushbutton, or mouse.