Multiviewer

The Multiviewer is able to give a KVM access to several devices simultaneously. The Multiviewer is installed with KCenter. It is a companion application that cannot be run alone. It is launched by KCenter and it gives access to all detected devices or to a subset of devices according to the settings you made in KCenter (See Devices and Group Actions).

At start time the screens of all devices are automatically arranged in small windows on a grid basis and scaled so that they can all fit into the Multiviewer main window. The layout and the size of small windows can be freely changed. The Multiviewer can switch between the multi-view display and a single-view display of one of the devices at normal resolution. The switching is extremely fast. You can toggle between the multi-view and the single-view displays by left clicking on a device window while pressing CTRL/SHIFT.

Single-view mode: the Multiviewer behaves like a standard KVM viewer. The video is displayed at normal resolution without scaling.

Multi-view mode: the mouse and keyboards are responsive. The mouse and keyboard events are transmitted to the selected device. The selected device is highlighted by red borders. To select a device just click in its window.

Layout: The layout of windows is flexible. At start time the Multiviewer arranges the windows on a grid layout depending on the number of devices. Then the windows can be dragged or resized provided the option Move and Resize Windows is checked under the Layout tab. A custom layout can be saved and reused later.

Windows Decoration: The device windows can be naked or decorated with a label showing the device name or the device IP address (Location). This feature can be set up under the Layout tab with the Decorated Windows and Show IP addresses check boxes.

Access to the Device Management: Double click on the decoration label to open the device web management.

The Multiviewer can also show a subset of the devices. Refer to the help page of the Group Actions.