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The Session Menu

The Session Menu

The session menu is the one place for everything you change during a session: picture quality, connection statistics, settings for the device you are on, your camera and microphone, and reporting a problem. Its title bar reads Stream settings.

Settings you change here apply at once to the running session. Picture settings are saved on your workstation, so every device you connect from gets the same picture. Settings under Local are saved on the device you are using.

Open and use the menu

Section titled “Open and use the menu”

  1. Find the half circle at the top of the screen.

    In full screen a faint half circle sits at the top edge. It stays faint so it does not get in the way, and darkens when your pointer is over it.

    The top edge of the picture in full screen, with the faint half circle in the centre

    The half circle darkened, with the pointer over it

  2. Click the half circle, or press F2.

    In a window on Windows and Linux, you can also open the Settings menu at the top and choose Stream Settings…. On a Mac it is on the Settings menu in the menu bar.

    The Settings menu of the session window open, with Enter Fullscreen, Fullscreen on All Screens, Send Ctrl+Alt+Del, Type Clipboard and Stream Settings… F2

  3. The menu opens over your desktop.

    It is a panel in the top-right corner of the stream window, 700 pixels wide, with the tabs Picture, Stats, Local, Camera, Report and About. The desktop behind it dims and your typing goes to the menu until you close it.

    The session menu open over the desktop, on the Picture tab, with Balanced selected

  4. The first time, read the walkthrough.

    On your first session from a device the menu opens on a short walkthrough instead of the Picture tab. Click Next to read it, or tick Don’t show this again. See Walkthrough.

    The session menu open on the first walkthrough step: Your menu is the half circle at the top

    The walkthrough step Change how the picture looks

  5. Picture: choose how the picture looks.

    Smooth, Balanced or Sharp, and the Frame rate, Mode and Quality controls behind them. See Picture.

    The Picture tab: Picture preset with Balanced selected, then Frame rate, Mode and Quality

  6. Stats: read the live figures.

    Bitrate, latency, network, codec and per-screen figures, with a latency chart for the session. See Stats.

    The Stats tab with bitrate, latency, network, connection, quality, mode, codec, host GPU, transport and relay, and a latency chart

  7. Local: settings for this device.

    HDR, full-resolution display, scrolling, key positions, all screens, the menu hint position and diagnostics. See Local.

    The Local tab with HDR and 10-bit colour, Full-resolution display, Invert scrolling, Send key positions instead of characters, Use all screens, Menu hint position and Diagnostics

  8. Camera: your camera and microphone on the workstation.

    See Camera.

    The Camera tab with a camera list, Resolution, Microphone and Enable camera when the host requests it

  9. Report: send a problem to Computle.

    The report includes this device’s diagnostics and log files. Replies arrive under Your reports. See Report and About.

    The Report tab with New report and Your reports, What happened?, Attachments and Send report

  10. About: your version and support code.

    The About tab with the version, Check for updates, Resources and the support code

  11. If something is not right, press F3.

    The last walkthrough step covers it: Report sends your session logs, F3 shows the connection figures on screen, and Ctrl+F3 (Command+F3 on a Mac) copies them as text. See Connection Figures.

    The walkthrough step If something is not right

    The F3 overlay in the top corner of the picture: Good, 60.0 fps, 18.4 Mbps, 12 ms

  12. Close the menu.

    Press F2 or Esc, or click the × in the corner. On Windows and Mac the menu closes by itself after 30 minutes without being touched.

Open and close, by platform

Section titled “Open and close, by platform”
PlatformOpenClose
Windows, Mac and LinuxPress F2, or move your pointer to the top of the screen and click the faint half circlePress F2 or Esc, or click the × in the corner
iPad and iPhoneTap the menu pill, then Stream settings, or swipe down with three fingersTap outside the menu

To move the half circle, open the Local tab and set Menu hint to Left, Centre or Right. Centre is the default.

The tabs

Section titled “The tabs”
PictureSmooth, Balanced and Sharp, and the Frame rate, Mode and Quality controls behind them.
StatsLive bitrate, latency, network, codec and per-screen figures, with a latency chart.
LocalHDR, full-resolution display, scrolling, key positions, all screens, the menu hint and diagnostics for this device.
CameraYour camera, its resolution and your microphone on the workstation.
Report and AboutSend a report with diagnostics and logs, and read your version and support code.
WalkthroughThe first-session walkthrough, what each step covers, and how to read it again.

Connection Figures

The F3 overlay and what each figure means. Open

Multiple Screens

Use all screens and windowed sessions. Open

Sound, Camera and Microphone

Your camera and microphone on your workstation. Open

Reporting a Problem

What a report contains and how replies reach you. Open