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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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boyd

Requesting hot key to switch between two screens on laptop. Happy to provide more info if needed. 

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Marc

So I actually might have come up with a way to accomplish this - at least somewhat.

You can open each separate guest/remote monitor in a separate window on your host/local computer (at least on a PC).  When you are on a regular local application, you can use ALT-TAB to switch between windows, but trying to do this when the focus is on a guest/remote window jus sends the ALT-TAB command to the guest/remote computer.  

But, you can use CTRL+ALT+TAB to bring up the application switcher for the host/local computer, even when the focus is on the guest/remote computer.  This even works with the guest/remote computer is in full-screen mode.

The slight downside is that when using ALT+TAB, you just hold down ALT and click TAB multiple times until you hit the right window, and then release the keys and that window is now shown.  With CTRL+ALT+TAB, you can still use TAB to cycle through windows, but releasing the keys doesn't change to the selected window - you then have to hit ENTER.

Hope this helps, but I still would like to see an actual keyboard shortcut to do this easier.  



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