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DSR Installer/User Guide
Selecting Servers
Use the Main dialog box to select servers. When you select a server, the DSR
reconfigures the keyboard and mouse to the settings for the selected server.
To select servers
1. Double-click the server name or port number.
—or—
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 (
Name button is
depressed), type the fi rst few letters of the name of the server to establish
it as unique, and press
Enter .
To select the previous server
Press Print Screen and then Backspace . This key combination toggles you
between the previous and current connection.
To disengage the user from a server
Press Print Screen and then Alt + Ø . This leaves the user in a free state, with no
server selected. The status flag on your desktop displays Free .
Soft Switching
After you press Print Screen to initially open the OSCAR GUI, you can select
servers without displaying OSCAR. This is called a soft switch.
To confi gure servers for selecting without displaying OSCAR
1. Click Setup-Menu .
2. For Delay Time, type the number of seconds of delay desired before the
Main dialog box is displayed after
Print Screen is pressed.
3. Click OK .
To select servers without displaying OSCAR
1. To select to another 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 (
Name button is
depressed), type the fi rst few letters of the name of the server to establish
it as unique, and press
Enter . If the selection is performed before the delay
time has expired, OSCAR GUI does not display.
2. To switch back to the previous server, press Print Screen then Backspace .