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Special Mouse Driver
There are mouse drivers that 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 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.
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 re-synchronizing fails, disable the
mouse acceleration and repeat the procedure.
4.4.5 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 IKVM-8010 / IKVM-16010 also feature another mode, the Single
Mouse Mode, where only the remote mouse pointer is visible. Activate this mode in the open Remote
Console 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 hotkey to free the captured local mouse pointer.
4.4.6 Recommended Mouse Settings
For the different operating systems we can give the following advice:
MS Windows 2000/XP/2003/Win7 (Professional and Server)
In general, we recommend the usage of a mouse via USB. Choose USB without Mouse Sync. For
a PS/2 mouse, choose Auto Mouse Speed. For XP disable the option enhances pointer precision in
the Control Panel.
SUN Solaris
Adjust the mouse settings either via xset m 1 or use the CDE Control Panel to set the mouse to 1:1,
no acceleration. As an alternative you may also use the Single Mouse Mode.
MAC OS X
We recommend using the Single Mouse Mode.
4.4.7 Video Modes
The IKVM-8010 / IKVM-16010 recognize a limited number of common video modes. When running X11 on
the host system, please do not use any custom mode lines with special video modes. If you do, the
IKVM-8010 /16010 may not be able to detect them. We recommend using any of the standard VESA video
modes, instead.