
Instruction manual
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pointing device (for example, a touch pad), if you have a standard USB mouse,
you may want to connect it directly to the server instead of the laptop. The laptop
screen and keyboard are still used in this conguration, but the mouse emulation is
not, which avoids accidental touches on the laptop touchpad being registered as a
click. This setup is also recommended when you use NOTECONS02X with USB KVM
switches. USB KVM products generally can’t understand the USB mouse emulation
device because of its advanced use of the HID (Human Interface Device) standard.
When you disable the mouse entirely, the mouse cursor is shown as a circle with a
line through it to remind you that clicks aren’t eective in that window.
• Swap Buttons. To swap the order of the buttons so that the left and right buttons
are reversed, select this option. This setting is useful for people who control the
mouse with their left hand. Your laptop remembers this setting and may also swap
buttons to suit your preferences. It’s not always clear how many swaps are needed
and which layer is doing the swapping. As such, you should experiment with this
option to achieve the settings that you want.
• Captured Mouse mode. In Absolute Mouse mode, you can move the laptop mouse
around the window and click as necessary. In Relative Mode, the mouse doesn’t
move until you click once on the desktop. This“captures”the mouse and subsequent
clicks and motions are sent to the controlled host computer. To release the captured
mouse, without pressing any of the buttons, make a circle gesture with the mouse
in either clockwise or counter-clockwise direction. If you have a keyboard, you can
also press Alt+Ctrl+Shift at the same time to release the captured mouse.
• Mac OS X Scaling. By default, this mode is enabled and applies a special adaptive
scaling factor to maintain perfect alignment when using NOTECONS02X with Mac
OS X computers.
• Motion reporting mode. Use this submenu to view the current mouse motion
reporting mode. You can also use this submenu to force the system into relative
mode. Any BIOS system that uses the USB mouse probably won’t support absolute
mode. Similarly, programs that run in DOS with the BIOS converting USB events
into legacy PS/2 mouse events won’t be able to understand absolute mouse events.
The USB laptop console will drop down to relative mode when the host computer
indicates that it doesn’t support absolute mode (there is a way to do this over USB
protocol). You can also force relative mode, which causes a USB hotplug event and
is internally remembered by the USB laptop console itself. If the host computer
doesn’t correctly implement the USB HID specication, you may need to force
Relative mode.
About the Toolbar menu
The options in this menu provide a more direct way to control the toolbar. Options
include docking, oating, hiding, or showing the toolbar. A check mark next to the
option indicates that it’s the current state of the toolbar. The program remembers the
state of the toolbar when you close the program and applies it when you reopen it. To
restore the default settings for the toolbar, click Restore default window layout.