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Reducing Mouse Cursor Flickering, Viewing Multiple Servers Using the Scan Mode, Scanning Your Servers

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NOTE: See the documentation included with your Windows operating system for specific instructions. Red Hat Linux: 1 Select the Mouse settings from the Desktop Controls. 2 Set Acceleration to 1.0. 3 Apply the changes and use the Align Local Cursor/Mouse button in the Viewer to resynchronize the mouse. Reducing Mouse Cursor Flickering If the video driver on the RCS software client machine does not support DirectDraw® and the DirectDraw option in the RCS software has been activated, the mouse cursor will flicker on the screen. The RCS software factory default has DirectDraw disabled. If the video driver on the client system supports DirectDraw and the additional performance is desired, follow the instructions below to enable DirectDraw. To enable or disable DirectDraw: 1 In the Explorer window, select Tools - Options. 2 Click to enable or disable the DirectDraw check box. 3 Click OK. 4 Restart the RCS software. Viewing Multiple Servers Using the Scan Mode The Viewer allows you to simultaneously view multiple servers through the Thumbnail Viewer of the Scan mode. This view contains a series of thumbnail frames, each containing a small, scaled, non-interactive version of a server's screen image. The server name displays below each thumbnail as well as the status indicator. Scanning Your Servers Using the Thumbnail Viewer, you can set up a scan sequence of up to 16 servers to monitor your servers. The scan mode moves from one thumbnail image to the next, logging into a server and displaying an updated server image for a user-specified length of time (View Time Per Server), before logging out of that server and moving on to the next thumbnail image. You Using the Viewer 63

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Using the Viewer
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NOTE:
See the documentation included with your Windows operating system for
specific instructions.
Red Hat Linux:
1
Select the
Mouse
settings from the
Desktop
Controls
.
2
Set
Acceleration
to 1.0.
3
Apply the changes and use the
Align Local Cursor/Mouse
button in the
Viewer
to resynchronize the mouse.
Reducing Mouse Cursor Flickering
If the video driver on the RCS software client machine does not support
DirectDraw
®
and the
DirectDraw
option in the RCS software has been
activated, the mouse cursor will flicker on the screen. The RCS software
factory default has DirectDraw disabled. If the video driver on the client
system supports DirectDraw and the additional performance is desired, follow
the instructions below to enable DirectDraw.
To enable or disable DirectDraw:
1
In the Explorer window, select
Tools
-
Options
.
2
Click to enable or disable the
DirectDraw
check box.
3
Click
OK
.
4
Restart the RCS software.
Viewing Multiple Servers Using the Scan Mode
The Viewer allows you to simultaneously view multiple servers through the
Thumbnail Viewer of the
Scan
mode. This view contains a series of
thumbnail frames, each containing a small, scaled, non-interactive version of
a server's screen image. The server name displays below each thumbnail as
well as the status indicator.
Scanning Your Servers
Using the
Thumbnail
Viewer, you can set up a scan sequence of up to 16
servers to monitor your servers. The scan mode moves from one thumbnail
image to the next, logging into a server and displaying an updated server
image for a user-specified length of time (
View Time Per Server
), before
logging out of that server and moving on to the next thumbnail image. You