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Chapter 5
Keyboard Operation
Keyboard Port Control
Keyboard port control allows you to provide KVM focus to a particular
computer using hotkey combinations from the keyboard. The KH1508 /
KH1516 provides the following hotkey port control features:
Selecting the Active Port
Auto Scanning
Skip Mode Switching
Invoking Hotkey Mode
All hotkey operations begin by invoking
Hotkey Mode
. Invoking Hotkey Mode
takes three steps:
1. Hold down the
Num Lock
key;
2. Press and release the
minus
key;
3. Release the
Num Lock
key:
[Num Lock] + [-];
Note:
The minus key must be released within one half second, otherwise
hotkey invocation is cancelled and it has no effect.
When Hotkey Mode is active:
The Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock LEDs flash in succession to indicate so.
They stop flashing and revert to normal status when you exit Hotkey
Mode.
A Command Line appears on the monitor screen. The command line
prompt is the word
Hotkey:
in yellow text on a blue background, and
displays the subsequent hotkey information that you key in.
Ordinary keyboard and mouse functions are suspended - only hotkey
compliant keystrokes (described in the sections that follow), can be input.
Pressing
[Esc]
exits Hotkey Mode.
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