Specifications

SERVSWITCH™ DUO AND SERVSWITCH™ QUADRO

5.12 The Reminder Banner

Normally the ServSwitch Duo/Quadro will display a discreet computer-name

reminder banner that reminds you which computer you are connected to. (It can

be very easy to forget—especially if many of your computers are devoted to the

same application software, so that their video output is very similar.) You can

customize the color and transparency of the banner, or even disable it if you want

to (see Section 5.13).

This banner will normally appear at the top of the screen in a central location,

but you can move it around the screen in any direction by using the hotkeys

together with the arrow keys in the main part of your keyboard (not those on the

numeric keypad). For example, with the default hotkeys ([Ctrl] and [Alt]), you

can move the banner up the screen by pressing and holding [Ctrl] and [Alt],

pressing and releasing [↑], then releasing [Ctrl] and [Alt].

In normal non-exclusive access, the reminder banner is also used to tell you that

another user is using the computer that you are currently connected to. While the

other user has keyboard and mouse control of the computer, you’ll see the

message “Video Only” below the computer name in the banner, as shown in

Figure 5-11. (You’ll also see the “Video Only” message if you’ve selected the

computer for video-only access; see Section 5.11.)

Figure 5-11. The reminder banner.

Banner text (shown

here as gray)

Screen background

pattern (shown here in

black and white); when

you select a transparent

color scheme, you can

see the screen behind

the banner