Keyboard shortcut to switch monitors/custom shortcuts

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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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It just dawned on me that with the proliferation of multiple monitors and the difficulty of switching monitors especially when there are three or more, that if ScreenConnect had a button or keystroke combination to move the last opened window to the monitor currently in view, you could really upset your competitors.

This occurred to me as I was logged into a two monitor setup and open a new email. It took me four or five seconds to realize it was open on the other monitor.

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Jaison Thomas

Please add hotkey functionality to toggle between dual monitors from a single host monitor (laptop).

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Andy Busch

I upvoted this. We have a piece of software that uses ctrl-shift-delete as a key command and if it's running on the local computer, will capture the key sequence before sending it to the remote computer.

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Daniel Brooks

We're also considering switching from LogMeIn, and this is something our users really want.

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Sean Choo

I am considering switching from Bomgar. A shortcut to switch between monitors would be one of my deciding factors.


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Nicholas Aguirre

This is a really important feature for my work. I deal with people with 2 to 3 monitors and I am constantly having to stop what I am doing, grab my mouse, move up to the monitor button, wait for it to open, then click the monitor I want. It seems like a simple task but it really gets in the way of my job on a daily basis.

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Jason Sobell

I've been using ScreenConnect for about six years, and the lack of a hotkey to toggle monitors is still a complete pain!!

We have dev machines with three monitors, and toggling between them using the mouse and top menu is slow and annoying.

How about a nice Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F1 - Fn or something? Is there a technical reason for not implementing this?

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Sean Choo

I would also like to see this added as a standard feature. All of your major competitors have this. I know because I have tried them all. At some point this may become a breaking point for me. Windows especially will open new windows on separate monitors constantly such as when installing a print driver. This really is a pain point.

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Shawn B

First:        Love the Product and the simplicity and consistency of use. We moved away from LogMeIn a long time ago.

Second:   What? How is it that Multi-Monitor Toggling (Switching) is 'still' under consideration and not already in production, especially if that request was made more than 3 years ago??

Come on Connectwise Control Team... please get that done 'yesterday'!

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Vik

Requesting this feature as well. Keyboard shortcuts in general, but especially to switch monitors would be amazing.

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CBrownCPA

Please, Please, Please make this a priority.  It seems like a simple feature to include and it would greatly improve efficiency when working on a client machine with multiple monitors.



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