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Keyboard shortcut to switch monitors/custom shortcuts

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bendr
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Hi I have been using screen connect for over 6 months now, and I would like to first say how much I like this product and that I appreciate the work you guys do.


My feature request is around working with clients on multiple monitor setups. This is frequently the case and it's not often that I can fit all their monitors on one of my screen or even stretch it across two. So in order to see clearly what is going on I often tend to view just one of the monitors but then something might get opened on the other screen and currently there is a lot of movement required to switch to the other monitor. What I would really like is a way to cycle through the monitors via keyboard.

While thinking about this it occurs to me that there are many other keyboard shortcuts that I would use and love if I could have them. So perhaps instead of you getting a feature request every time someone wants a new shortcut, you could give us a configuration file for shortcut keys. So that we can assign our own shortcuts to certain functions.


Configuration file could be a set configuration dialogue or something as well, but personally I would be just as happy with a plain text file to configure things like this.

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Mike Bannerman Team Member
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joshthree

The ability to do this on the Mac is built in to the OS. The problem with the Mac client though is that this functionality is broken. I can see that the shortcuts have been added, they just don't work. To be clear what I'm talking about here: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18418?locale=en_US


Oddly enough, it does work for Quit (I have re-assigned the shortcut), it just doesn't work for the monitors).



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micjam

It would be great to have some toggle or shortcut for monitors. I use Chrome on a Mac with a 13" display but some of my Windows clients have 3 x 21" monitors at their end..

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anonymous
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Strong Eagle

Please add shortcut key/hotkey capability to switch monitors sitting at a single monitor host.  Yes, I know that a second window can be opened and windows can be switched on the task bar.  However, my users are migrating from LogMeIn where they used a hotkey to switch and it would be great to enable that functionality.  Thank you.

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Blake Riekena

Ditto on the multi-monitor toggle, I likewise have clients used to LogMeIn and the way it works there. I often have clients sitting at multi-monitor systems and remotely accessing another multi-monitor system. So on screen one they have their local apps and on screen two they have their remote apps. As someone else noted, sometimes the remote application pops on the off screen, necessitating move movement and delays/impact to productivity. It's even worse when viewing the remote screen in full screen mode (avoids confusion on the clients part) because you now have to mouse up, wait for the bar to drop down, select monitor, rinse and repeat. Will it help if I say Pretty Please? :-)

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joshthree

I gave up on ScreenConnect and the Mac ever offering keyboard shortcuts.  We're going on years of this request not being answered/implemented.  I started using Keyboard Maestro; works like a charm!

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anonymous

Hey Everyone,

We are considering the idea of showing a live feed of remote monitors not in focus in the View menu. If that menu is docked, you can easily switch between monitors. This is to come soon, barring any dev delays. 

Keyboard shortcuts will still be considered! This is just one improvement that will help easily identify changes on other monitors.

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lmrasi

Please create keyboard shortcut to toggle between monitors

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support-technique

Like Imrasi, it is a no brainer to have a keyboard shortcut to toggle between monitors. Thank you in advance !



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