Input Director is designed for those folks that have two (or more) Windows systems set up at home. Using Input Director, position the monitors of your systems side-by-side and then you can control them via one keyboard / mouse.
Version: 2.1.1Input Director is designed for those folks that have two (or more) Windows systems set up at home.
License: Free
Operating System: Windows
Homepage: www.inputdirector.com
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Using Input Director, you can position the monitors of your systems side-by-side and then control all of them via one keyboard / mouse.
To transition which system you're controlling is as simple as moving the cursor off the screen on one system and it'll pop up on the next screen (similar to a multi-monitor setup) or via a hotkey combo.
Input Director also lets you share clipboard contents, so you can copy from one machine, switch over to another and then paste. This also works for files that are in network shared directories.
New features include:
- A new and flexible monitor layout system. Monitors can be positioned and resized to accurately reflect their physical locations and size differences
- Shared clipboard file copy/pastes no longer require network shares, making it even easier to copy files from anywhere to anywhere
- Can configure Input Director not to mouse transition to a client when a full screen application is active
- If the Director system has a touch screen that is tapped whilst controlling a client system, input control is returned back to the Director
- Can now configure Input Director to center the cursor on the primary screen when hotkeying to it
- Can configure the jump hotkeys to transition between monitors instead of between systems
- Mirroring can now be constrained to the primary screen on Client systems
- Improved compatiblity with Windows Remote Desktop
Version 2.1.1: * A new and flexible monitor layout system. Monitors can be positioned and resized to accurately reflect their physical locations and size differences * Shared clipboard file copy/pastes no longer require network shares, making it even easier to copy files from anywhere to anywhere * Can configure Input Director not to mouse transition to a client when a full screen application is active * If the Director system has a touch screen that is tapped whilst controlling a client system, input control is returned back to the Director * Can now configure Input Director to center the cursor on the primary screen when hotkeying to it * Can configure the jump hotkeys to transition between monitors instead of between systems * Mirroring can now be constrained to the primary screen on Client systems * Improved compatiblity with Windows Remote Desktop
Version 2.0: * Input Director's user interface has been refreshed, modernised and improved * Adding a new system is easier with a new 'Scan Network' feature to find other systems on the network running Input Director * Can exclude file copy/pastes from shared clipboard
Version 1.4.3: * Import/Export Input Director configuration as XML * Use Wake-On-Lan to wake a slave from sleep * Cursor displayed correctly if mouse is disconnected
Version 1.4.2: * Supports Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10 * Supports high DPI displays
Version 1.3: * Can control any system from any other system * Improved communications mode to better support unreliable Wireless networks * Direct a file to open on a different system from Windows Explorer * Permanently bind a key to a specific system * Horizontal scrollwheel actions are now supported
Version 1.2.2: * Supports flexible monitor layouts for systems with 3+ monitors * Mirror input mode can be limited to just keyboard or mouse only * Fixed problem with Vista/Win7 that could block the cursor from transitioning to slaves * Fixed several issues that could cause keys to become 'stuck' on a system
Version 1.2.1: * New transition options: Double-tap, linger, dead corners * Suppress warnings about clipboard pastes, different versions of ID and slave unavailabilities * Use the Masters keyboard layout * Limit config changes to administrators * "Hands-free" upgrade mode for Slaves