Remote PC consists of 7 services (Bluetooth Remote PC has 5). If you want to take advantage of full posibilities, you will read these descriptions. Please write your suggestions to new features to our forum - Suggestions for features.
The mouse interface is like any touchpad.
Do all movements with cursor like in Mouse service. Switching between Mouse and Desktop is on the right in ActionBar or in the General Preferences.
When you own an Android device with physical keyboard, you can start to write something in Mouse or Desktop service and Mini Keyboard will open up.
To write special characters (!@#$%^&, etc.) it's desirable to set Unicode Hex Input.
How to proceed:
Result:
The keyboard has problem with writing some characters into KDE applications. Writing to GNOME applications works well.
To use multimedia buttons you must select the right multimedia player at first.
Recommended - This multimedia player can be controlled in background.
Windows only - This multimedia player works only in Windows systems.
Mac OS X only - This multimedia player works only in Mac OS X systems.
Linux only - This multimedia player works only in Linux systems.
Alert - The control of such a multimedia player is based on keyboard shortcuts, therefore the player's window has to be in foreground (focused).
Red exclamation mark - It marks buttons which fire only keyboard shortcut (as Alert).
Skip backward and Skip forward buttons have got two functions. Short click shifts tracks and long click rewinds the current song.
Note: This additional function hasn't got Windows Media Player and Rhythmbox.
Specify a presentation program in Settings which you want to use. The window of a presentation has to be in foreground (focused).
Change slides pressing Volume Up or Volume Down physical buttons.
Create your own custom interface which is based on keyboard shortcuts. It just doesn't control only presentation, but every program based on keyboard shortcuts.
Stand by, Turn off and Restart buttons will close the connection with Remote PC Server.
Windows - It indicates your Windows system and offers you Power buttons which can be used.
Mac OS X - It indicates your Mac OS X system and offers you Power buttons which can be used.
Linux - It indicates your Linux system and offers you Power buttons which can be used.
Unfortunately this operating system hasn't got any reliable Power interface, so Power buttons contains only experimental commands (e.g.: shutdown command which requires root privileges).
Most of Power buttons requires root privileges, because the are based on shutdown command, pm_suspend and pm_hibernate. Add su or sudo command to Remote PC Server launcher (e.g.: cd path-to-server's-directory; sudo java -jar Remote\ PC\ Server.jar).
Created on 3rd July 2011 — Bluetooth Remote PC v1.01 (outdated)