Black Box KV6104SA manual Configuration

CHAPTER 4: Configuration

4.2.6SETTING THE HOTKEY SEQUENCE

You can access many of the ServSwitch Duo’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 2000® 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

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