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station’s users can reclaim control if they are the first to select the primary
CPU. But if a user at the local station is the first to select the primary CPU after
the timeout expires, users at the primary station must then wait until the local
user relinquishes control.
Users at the local station can try to take keyboard and mouse control of the
primary CPU (and gain audio access to it) in either of two ways that will yield two
different results:
• They can try to assert
normal
control by simply typing something at their
keyboard or moving their mouse. This type of control is governed by the
inactivity timeout in the same way that the primary station’s control always is.
• They can try to assert
exclusive
control by selecting the primary CPU with the
{Hotkeys} + [1] command (see
Section 5.7
). This type of control lasts
indefinitely (the inactivity timeout is disabled), until the local station’s users
deliberately relinquish control by issuing the {Hotkeys} + [0] command to
select “CPU zero.”
If the primary CPU is being controlled by a user at the primary station (which
should be obvious from the state of Unit A’s LEDs), these attempts will fail,
although the users at the primary station will still be able to see the primary CPU’s
video. If the primary CPU is available (the user at the primary station isn’t
controlling it), these attempts will succeed. The Extender will display the primary
CPU’s video on the primary monitor, and will give the users at the primary station
keyboard and mouse control (as well as audio access).
A note about audio: While the primary CPU is available (idle, not selected by
users at either station), its audio input and audio output will continue, to and from
the station that most recently controlled it
(see
Section 5.10
).
