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Chapter 4. Configuration
Host System Mouse Settings
The host’s operating system knows various settings for the mouse driver.
Warning
The following limitations do not apply in case of USB and Mouse Type
“MS Windows 2000 and newer”.
While the B050-000 works with accelerated mice and is able to synchronize the lo-
cal with the remote mouse pointer, 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 and lead
to desynchronized mouse pointers. If this happens, make sure you do not use a
special vendor-specific mouse driver on your host system.
Windows 2003 Server/XP Mouse Settings
Windows XP knows a setting named “improve mouse acceleration” which has
to be deactivated.
Active Desktop
If the Active Desktop feature of Microsoft Windows is enabled, do not use a plain
background. Instead, use some kind of wallpaper. As an alternative, you could
also disable the Active Desktop completely.
See also the Section called Recommended Mouse Settings for mouse mode recommen-
dations.
Navigate your mouse pointer into the upper left corner of the applet screen and move
it slightly forth and back. Thus the mouse will be resynchronized. If resynchronizing
fails, disable the mouse acceleration and repeat the procedure.
Single and Double Mouse Mode
The information above applies to the Double Mouse Mode where remote and local
mouse pointers are visible and need to be synchronized. The B050-000 also features
another mode, the Single Mouse Mode, where only the remote mouse pointer is vis-
ible. Activate this mode in the Remote Console (see the Section called Remote Console
Control Bar in Chapter 5) and click into the window area. The local mouse pointer
will be hidden and the remote one can be controlled directly. To leave this mode it is
necessary to define a mouse hotkey in the Remote Console Settings Panel Press this
key to free the captured local mouse pointer.
Recommended Mouse Settings
For the different operating systems we can give the following advice:
MS Windows NT4
NT4 supports PS/2, only. Please choose the options PS/2 mouse and Auto
Mouse Speed.
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