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Auxiliary PC

Deprecated

The auxiliary PC feature of MultiTaction Canvus is deprecated. Remote desktop (RDP) connections replace it.

An auxiliary PC was a Windows computer next to the wall that opened Office documents and other files for the canvas, with its screen shown through a capture input. Canvus now does this natively over the Remote Desktop Protocol: an RDP widget shows a Windows desktop or a single application on the canvas, takes multi-touch input and plays its audio, with no extra agent, capture cable or file share.

To work with Microsoft Office documents and other Windows applications on the canvas:

  • Open a remote desktop with Open Remote Desktop List in the Toolbox of the finger menu, or launch a remote application from the More menu of a file on the canvas. See RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol).
  • An administrator defines the RDP connections in mt-canvus.ini. See RDP in the configuration file.

Do not set up new auxiliary PCs. On an existing installation, leave host in the [auxiliary-pc] section empty, which turns the feature off, and move users to RDP connections.