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Introduction

Canvus is an engaging and intuitive software solution for visual collaboration. It helps organizations to visualize big data, socialize ideas, educate clients and work collaboratively.

Canvus supports connected operations, enabling geographically dispersed Canvus users to collaborate on shared canvases. For example, teams in separate offices can simultaneously work on the same canvas, with each team able to see updates made by other teams in real time.

With Canvus, multiple users can work on a video wall at the same time, using their hands, fingers and pens to interact with screen content. Canvus also allows users to share content from their personal devices onto the video wall and, conversely, to share content from the video wall onto external monitors, projectors, or other outputs.

Canvus Client and Canvus Connect server

Canvus consists of two separate software components: client and server.

  • Canvus client is a desktop application for Windows and Linux. You can use Canvus client on your personal computer, such as desktop or laptop, or it can run on a large format display or a video wall.
  • Canvus Connect server: is a server application that stores your shared canvases and enables remote collaboration. The server is installed and administered by IT administrators.

Single user or multi-user mode?

Canvus client can run in single user mode or multi-user mode.

  • Single user mode is aimed at running Canvus client on a personal computer for a single user, such as on your laptop or desktop machine. In this mode:
    • Canvus user interface is optimized for a single user. Only one canvas item can be active at a time.
    • All local and network disk drives are listed in Canvus with USB disks.
    • Virtual keyboard is shown if running in Windows 10 Tablet mode.
    • There can only be a single virtual keyboard on screen at once.
  • Multi-user mode is aimed at running Canvus client on an interactive large format display or a video wall. In his mode:
    • Canvus user interface supports multiple simultaneous users on the same device. Multiple canvas items can be active at once based on their distance on screen.
    • QR code authentication is preferred.
    • Only USB disks are listed in the main menu.
    • Multiple virtual keyboards can appear on screen at once based on their distance on screen.

By default, Canvus client will use single user mode unless the touch configuration file (config.txt) uses MultiTaction displays or the display configuration file (screen.xml) specifies multiple windows.

Tip

If you want to change or force the mode Canvus client operates in, see client-mode-settings in the client configuration.