Chapter 3: Basic Operations

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To select the previous server:

Press Print Screen and then Backspace. This key combination toggles you between the previous and current connections.

To disconnect the user from a server:

Press Print Screen and then Alt+0. This leaves the user in a free state, with no server selected. The status flag on your desktop displays Free.

Soft switching

Soft switching is the ability to switch servers using a hotkey sequence. You can soft switch to a server by pressing Print Screen and then typing the first few characters of its name or number. If you have set a Screen Delay Time and you press the key sequences before that time has elapsed, the OSCAR interface will not display.

To configure servers for soft switching:

1.Press Print Screen to launch the OSCAR interface. The Main dialog box displays.

2.Click Setup - Menu. The Menu dialog box displays.

3.For Screen Delay Time, type the number of seconds of delay desired before the Main dialog box is displayed after Print Screen is pressed.

4.Click OK.

To soft switch to a server:

1.To select a server, press Print Screen. If the display order of your server list is by port (Port button is depressed), type the port number and press Enter.

-or-

If the display order of your server list is by name or EID number (Name or EID button is depressed), type the first few characters of the name of the server or the EID number to establish it as unique and press Enter.

2.To switch back to the previous server, press Print Screen then Backspace.

Navigating the OSCAR Interface

This table describes how to navigate the OSCAR interface using the keyboard and mouse.

Table 3.2: OSCAR Interface Navigation Basics

This Keystroke

Does This

 

 

Print Screen,Ctrl-Ctrl

Activates the OSCAR interface. See Changing the display behavior later in this

Shift-Shift, and/or

chapter for further details.

Alt-Alt

 

 

 

Print Screen-Print

Press Print Screen twice to send the Print Screen keystroke to the currently

Screen

selected device.

 

 

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Avocent 1415, 2015, 1515 manual Navigating the Oscar Interface

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