Instruction Manual
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This setting is remembered on the laptop. Please keep in mind that the operating
system may also be swapping buttons to suit your preferences. It’s not always clear
how many swaps are needed, and which layer is doing the swapping. Experimentation
is suggested.
To release captured mouse...
In absolute mouse mode, you may simply move the laptop mouse over the window
and click as desired. In relative mode, the mouse doesn’t do anything until you click
once on the desktop. This captures the mouse and subsequent clicks and motion are
sent to the controlled host. A dialog is shown to remind you how to get back to your
laptop desktop.
To release the captured mouse, we offer two methods: make a circle gesture with
mouse or press “Alt+Ctrl+Shift” at the same time. The circle gesture is disabled by
default.
The gesture method is helpful for systems that may not have a keyboard. Simply move
the mouse in circle (with no mouse buttons pressed). It can be clockwise or counter-
clockwise. If it doesn’t work at first, just keep circling.
One or both of these methods must be selected at all times.
MacOS X Scaling
This mode is enabled by default, and applies a special adaptive scaling factor to
maintain perfect alignment when using the crash cart adapter with Mac OS X
computers.
Motion reporting mode
The current mouse motion reporting mode is indicated on this submenu. You also
have the option of forcing the system into relative mode.
We expect any BIOS system that uses the USB mouse will probably not support
absolute mode. Similarly, programs that run in DOS with the BIOS converting USB
events into legacy PS/2 mouse events will not be able to understand absolute mouse
events.
The USB Laptop Console will drop down to relative mode when the host operating
system indicates that it does not support absolute mode (there is a way to do this over
USB protocol). But you may force relative mode as well. This causes a USB hotplug
event and is remembered internal to the USB Laptop Console itself. This might be
needed if the computer doesn’t correctly implement the USB HID specification.
