The Remote Control Options button opens several options.
• Monitor Only: Toggles the Monitor Only filter on or off. When on, no remote console interaction is possible. The remote screen can be viewed only.
• Exclusive Access: If a user has the appropriate permission, all other Remote Consoles connections are forced to close. No other user can open a Remote Console connection until this user disables the exclusive access or logs off.
• Screenshot to clipboard: Capture a screen shot of the Remote Console. The Intel® RMM2 places the screen shot onto the clipboard so you can import it as necessary.
• Readability Filter: Toggles the readability filter on or off. When on in scaling mode, the filter preserves most of the screen details, even if the image is scaled down. This option is only available with JVM 1.4 or higher.
• Scaling: Scale the Remote Console screen size. You can still use both the mouse and keyboard, but the scaling algorithm does not preserve all display details.
• Mouse Handling: Synchronize the local and the remote mouse pointer when using Soft Mouse Mode. This option is available only when “Other Operating Systems” is selected as the operating system type under KVM Settings:Keyboard\Mouse. See
“Keyboard/Mouse” on page 52.
— Fast Sync: Correct a temporary but fixed skew.
— Intelligent Sync: Use this if fast sync does not work or if the mouse settings have been changed on the host system.
— Single/Double Mouse Mode: Show only the remote mouse pointer. The local mouse pointer is 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
option is available only when “Other Operating Systems” is selected as the operating system type under KVM Settings:Keyboard\Mouse. See “Keyboard/
Mouse” on page 52.
• Local Cursor: A list of cursor shapes for the local mouse pointer. The selected shape is saved for the current user and activated the next time this user opens the Remote Console. The number of available shapes depends on the Java Virtual Machine.
• Chat Window: Opens a chat window allowing you to interactively communicate with other users logged into the Intel® RMM2.
• Soft Keyboard: Simulates a keyboard on the remote system. Use the soft keyboard to send key codes and key sequences to the remote system. This is useful if the remote system uses a different language and country mapping.
Within the soft keyboard, send single key strokes by clicking on soft keyboard key.
Single keys are sent immediately. To send special keystrokes, such as the Ctrl, Shift, or function keys, click they key twice.The first click sends the signal “key is pressed”, the second click sends the signal “key is released”. After the first press the button changes color to indicate the key is pressed. After the second press the key(s) return to their normal color, indicating the key(s) are released.
Examples:
To send the key combination Ctrl+C:
✧ Click “Ctrl” once. The key on the screen changes color.
✧ Click “C” once. Because “C” is not a special keystroke, both the Ctrl and the C keys are released and the key combination is sent to the remote system. The two keys return to their normal color.
To send the key combination Ctrl+F5:
✧ Click “Ctrl” once. The key on the screen changes color.
✧ Click “F5” twice. The last click releases both keys and sends the key combination to the remote system. The two keys return to their normal color.
To send the key combination Alt+Shift+F4:
✧ Click “Alt” once. The key on the screen changes color.
✧ Click “Shift” once. The key on the screen changes color.
✧ Click “F4” twice. The last click releases all three keys and sends the key combination to the remote system. All three keys return to their normal color.
— Show: Display the Soft Keyboard.
— Mapping: Choosing the language and country mapping for the Soft Keyboard.
• Local Keyboard: Change the language mapping of the system that is runing the Remote Console. Normally, the Remote Console applet determines the correct language. but the JVM and browser settings might require you to set this manually.
Example: A German localized system uses a US-English keyboard mapping.
• Hot keys: Displays a list of previously-defined hot-keys. A confirmation dialog displays before the command is sent to the remote host.
• Encoding: Adjust the encoding level in terms of compression and color depth. These are only available when the transmission encoding is determined automatically.
— Compression Level: Select a value between 1 and 9. The lower the compression quality, the more data that have to be sent and the longer it may take to transfer the whole video picture.
Level 0 disables video compression. Level 1 enables the fastest compression and level 9 the best compression.
The best compression level is a compromise between the network bandwith and the number of changes between two single video screens. Use a higher
compression level if the network bandwidth is low. The higher the compression level the more time that is necessary to pack or unpack the video data on each side of the connection. The compression quality depends on the video picture.
— Predefined Compression: Lossy compression might lead to a degradation in image quality.
— Lossy Compression: Displays preset compression options.
— Color Depth: Sets the desired color depth. The higher the color depth, the greater the video information that must be captured and transferred. Select between 8- or 16-bit for compression level 0, or between 1- and 8-bit for compression level 1 to 9.