ServSwitch Freedom
Appendix B. What is Glide and Switch?
Glide and Switch represents true innovation in KVM switching. For the first time, Glide and Switch allows users to automatically switch between target computers simply by moving the mouse pointer from screen to screen. What makes this such a revolution is that you no longer need software to be installed on your mission critical computers in order to do this. Glide and Switch resides on the switch itself, sensing screen boundaries and instantaneously switching keyboard and mouse to the defined target comput- er. Glide and Switch can be configured for almost any combination of screens using the included configuration application which allows you to declare the individual screen sizes and visually position each one relative to the others.
PC1 | PC2 | PC3 | PC4 |
COMPUTER | K/M SPK USB1 USB2 | MODE |
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B L A C K B O X D E S K T O P K V M S W I T C H
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Glide and Switch consists of special code within the ServSwitch Freedom unit plus an intuitive graphical configuration application. First you inform the Glide and Switch configuration application how many screens you have, their pixel resolutions and how they are physically arranged (e.g
The beauty of Glide and Switch is its simplicity of configuration and operation. Once the initial configuration has taken place, all monitoring and switching is handled within the ServSwitch Freedom without need for extra connections or software utilities.
Issues when using Glide and Switch
•The ServSwitch Freedom unit must have a minimum of firmware version 2.00 installed to operate with Glide and Switch.
•Glide and Switch does not run any special utilities on each computer and thus has no way to instruct the computers to hide their mouse pointers when they are deselected by the ServSwitch Freedom unit. Therefore, the ServSwitch Freedom ‘parks’ each mouse pointer in the bottom right corner of the screen immediately before changing the channel. In most cases this will cause no issues, however, it may be noticeable in circumstances such as the following:
•If the task bar is set to auto hide and it is positioned either along the bottom of the screen (as default) or along the right hand side, then the task bar will automatically reappear when the mouse pointer is parked.
•When playing full screen video, the
•The mouse will not flow across the screens while any mouse buttons are pressed down - this prevents undesired behavior when dragging windows around or
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