What Is Free-Flow - ADDER CCS4-USB Manual

What is Free-Flow?

The Adder Free-Flow represents true innovation in KVM switching. For the first
time, Free-Flow allows users to automatically switch between target computers
simply by moving the mouse pointer from screen to screen. What makes this
such a revolution is that you no longer need software to be installed on your
mission critical computers in order to do this. Adder Free-Flow resides on the
switch itself, sensing screen boundaries and instantaneously switching keyboard
and mouse to the defined target computer. Free-Flow can be configured for
almost any combination of screens using the included application which allows
you to declare the individual screen sizes and visually position each one relative
to the others.
Free-Flow consists of special code within the CCS4-USB switch plus an intuitive
graphical configuration application. First you inform the Free-Flow configuration
application how many screens you have, their pixel resolutions and how they are
physically arranged (e.g side-by-side, vertical stack, square formation, etc.). You
then download this information to the CCS4-USB switch and this is used during
operation to determine the precise moment to switch from one screen/system to
the next.
The beauty of Free-Flow is its simplicity of configuration and operation. Once
the initial configuration has taken place, all monitoring and switching is handled
within the CCS4-USB without need for extra connections or software utilities.
Issues when using Free-Flow
• The CCS4-USB switch must have a minimum of firmware version 2.00
installed to operate with Free-Flow. See
• When computers and their displays are not currently selected, the CCS4-
USB 'parks' their mouse pointers in the bottom right corner of the screen.
In most cases this will cause no issues, however, it may be noticeable in
circumstances such as the following:
• If the task bar is set to auto hide and it is positioned either along the
bottom of the screen (as default) or along the right hand side, then the
task bar will automatically reappear when the mouse pointer is parked.
• When playing full screen video, the on-screen controls (play, pause, seek
etc.) will very likely be revealed when the mouse pointer is parked.
• To cure the either of the above issues, it is possible to alter the
parking
• The mouse will not flow across the screens while any mouse buttons are
pressed down - this prevents undesired behaviour when dragging windows
around or group-selecting items.
Free-Flow now
also supports
• By default, Linux operating systems use relative mouse data which Free-
multiple
Flow cannot use. A 'udev rule' is available that allows Linux to use absolute
monitors
mouse positioning, thus enabling standard Free-Flow (not Multi-Monitor
on each PC
(drivers are
mode) to operate.
required).
• Multi-Monitor Free-Flow is for use with the Windows operating system only
and requires specialist driver to be installed on each PC. See
Free-Flow configuration
More information
Free-Flow configuration
•
• Multi-Monitor Free-Flow configuration
• Operation: Selecting a computer
Performing upgrades
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