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4.1. INITIAL CONFIGURATION 17
Host system mouse settings
The host’s operating system also knows various settings for the mouse driver. While LARA works
with accelerated mice and is able to synchronize the local with the remote mouse pointer (see Sec-
tion
5.3.4 on page 28 ), there are the following limitations which may prevent this synchronization
from working properly:
Special Mouse Driver There are mouse drivers, which influence the synchronization process
leading to desynchronized mouse pointers. If this happens, make sure
you don’t use a special vendor-specific mouse driver on your host
system
Windows XP Mouse Setting Windows XP knows a setting to ’improve mouse acceleration’, which
has to be deactivated
You can check the correct setting by moving the mouse of your administration system to the upper
left corner of the Remote Console and moving it there slightly forth and back. This will force
a mouse synchronization in that corner of the screen. Once that is done you may observe the
behaviour of your remote mouse in accordance to the local one. If both mice desynchronize quickly
one of the above mentioned settings may be not correct.
LARA Video Modes
LARA recognizes a limited number of common video modes. When running X-Window on the host
system, please don’t use any custom modelines with special video modes. If done so, LARA may
not be able to detect these. You are on the safe side with all standard VESA video modes. Please
refer to Appendix
B on page 67 for a list of all known modes.
4.1.4. Mouse suppression utility
In order to provide a convenient user interface, you may install a tiny application on the server to
enable remote mouse hiding. This helper application will not install a device driver. Therefore,
user rights for installing an application are sufficient for its installation. The LARAm application
is written for Win32 operating systems and runs under the following Microsoft environments:
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Windows 98 / ME
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Windows NT4 / 2000 / XP
To install the LARAm application just start the installation script in the LARAm subdirectory of
the CD-ROM enclosed, and follow the instructions of the setup procedure. You will be asked if the
utility should be placed in the Startup-Folder of your system or if you want to activate it manually.
Once started, an icon appears in the taskbar notification area (tray) of you system to indicate that
the application is active and give the possibility to close the program. The installation procedure
also creates an icon to uninstall the application.