Keyboard, mouse and controllers

Mouse

By default the pointer maps straight onto the machine's screen: where you point is where it points.

• Lock pointer keeps the pointer inside the stream and sends movement instead of position, which is what most games want. Hold Esc to get the pointer back.
• Pointer sensitivity and Scroll sensitivity go from 10% to 300%.

Turn them on in Input controls on the stream page's menu, or in Input settings, which the shortcut menu opens.

Keyboard

Keys are sent by their place on the board, so shortcuts and games work whatever the layout.

• Translate keys sends the letter you typed instead of its place on the board. Turn it on when your keyboard layout differs from the machine's.
• A short press of Esc goes to the machine. Hold it to release a locked pointer, and keep holding it to leave fullscreen.
• On a touch screen, Show virtual keyboard brings up a keyboard.

The shortcut menu

Some keys never leave your own computer, such as the ones that switch windows. The shortcut menu sends them to the machine instead.

Open it by pressing Shift three times, by pressing Ctrl + Tab, or by holding three fingers on a touch screen. It offers the shortcuts for the machine's system:

Touch and pen

On a phone or a tablet, the screen works like a trackpad:

• Move one finger to move the pointer, and tap to click.
• Tap, then drag, to hold the button down while you drag.
• Two fingers scroll. A two finger tap is a right click, and a three finger tap a middle click.

A pen sends its pressure and tilt, so drawing apps on the machine feel it.

Controllers

Connect a controller to your computer or phone, by cable or Bluetooth, and press a button. Gamepad control sends it to the machine, which sees a controller of its own:

• Windows shows it as an Xbox controller or a PlayStation controller. Controller type picks one: Auto goes by your controller's name. Xbox works in most games and allows up to four. PlayStation allows more, in games that read it.
• Linux shows a virtual controller.
• macOS has no virtual controller, so controllers do not reach a Mac.

On WebRTC, rumble comes back to your controller where the browser supports it. On a touch screen, Always show virtual pad puts a controller on the screen, and Edit layout moves its buttons.

Clipboard

Text you copy goes across in both directions, when the owner allows it:

• Clipboard to the host: when you come back to the stream's tab, your copied text goes to the machine, up to 256 KB.
• Clipboard from the host: text copied on the machine lands in your clipboard.

Who decides

Three layers decide what you may send. The machine's owner sets the limits for everyone in the machine's settings, a person or an invite link can be given less, and the switches on the stream page turn each input on and off for you. See Machine settings.