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CHAPTER 4: Configuration
4.2.8 S
ETTING THE
H
OTKEY
S
EQUENCE
You can access many of the ServSwitch Wizard MP’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 Wizard MP 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 Wizard MP
require this sequence to trigger important application-specific functions, you will
have to change the Wizard MP’s hotkey sequence with the “H” command (type
[H][
digit
][Enter]).
Alternative hotkey sequence #5 is particularly suitable for extended keyboards
whose additional keys can be programmed to act as combinations of other keys.
Such keyboards are supplied with many Gateway™ 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 Wizard MP, 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
