Preferences window reference
Use Remotix preferences to set options that affect how you interact with remote servers.
Choose Remotix > Preferences… on a Mac or Edit > Preferences... on Windows and set any of the options in the tables below.
General pane
Option | Description |
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Show icon in Menu Bar (Mac) / Show icon in tray (Windows) | Choose whether to show Remotix icon in the system menu bar or tray. See Remotix menu in the system menu. |
Start Remotix at system startup | Choose whether to launch Remotix on system start. |
Show Computer List at startup | Choose whether to hide main window at startup. |
Install updates automatically | Allow to let Remotix keep itself up-to-date without your attention. |
Offer beta updates | Enable to get informed about beta versions of Remotix available for download. |
Remotix HTTP API | Enable to utilise Remotix HTTP API for routine actions. |
Write verbose logs | Check to allow Remotix to write verbose logs about everything. If disabled, Remotix only writes general information to the log file. |
Security pane
Option | Description |
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Master password | Set or change master password to protect stored credentials. See Protect confidential data with master password. |
Stored passwords | Click Reset All to remove all stored passwords from Remotix. This action cannot be undone. |
Offer saving credentials by default | If enabled, Remotix will offer to save credentials for any successful connection automatically. |
Viewer pane
Option | Description |
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Open new viewers as tabs | Choose if you prefer new connections to be opened in tabs of Remotix main window or in new windows. |
When connected use | Choose whether to control the mouse, trackpad, keyboard, and clipboard when connecting to a new computer. See Control or observe a single computer |
When controlling | Choose whether to allow remote user control of mouse, trackpad and keyboard while you are connected. |
When minimized | Choose whether to pause Viewer activity to reduce CPU load. |
Clipboard transfer indicator | Enable showing the Clipboard transfer indicator in the Viewer window whenever you copy or paste text and images. |
Keyboard Mode indicator | Enable showing the Input mode indicator in the Viewer window title whenever mouse and keyboard events are being sent to the remote machine. |
Send keyboard events | Choose whether to grab your local keyboard input whenever the Remotix window is active or only when your local mouse pointer is over it. |
Background color | Change the Viewer window background color. |
Connection pane
Option | Description |
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Auto synchronize Clipboard by default | Enable automatic clipboard synchronization when available. See Share clipboards between client and server. |
Autoreconnect | Enable to allow Remotix to try to re-establish the connection automatically if the connection has been interrupted. See Automatic reconnect. |
Enable HEVC (currently unavailable) | Choose whether to enable HEVC encoder for higher resolutions. |
Keyboard pane
Option | Description |
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Modifier mappings | Change the behavior of modifier keys with a pop-up menu. These settings are stored separately for Apple Screen Sharing, Windows RDP and other VNC connections. |
Input mode | For each type of connection (chosen in the header of pane), choose the default keyboard input mode. |
Synchronization
Option | Description |
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Store computers | Locally / In Remotix Cloud |
Remotix Cloud Keychain | Enabled / Disabled |
Connections | Upload Session info to Cloud |
SSH Tunnels
Option | Description |
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Connection settings | Host and port settings |
Authentification | Type of authentification, username, password |
RD Gateways
Option | Description |
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Connection settings | Host, port |
Credentials | Username, password, domain. |
Network
Option | Description |
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Proxy settings | System proxy / Custom SOCKSS proxy, address, port, username, password |
Remotix Gateway | Remotix Cloud or other |