[Tools-discuss] Re: How many clicks does it need to get a slide set activated?

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Thu, 23 July 2026 16:11 UTC

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Tero:

> Carsten Bormann writes:
>> Together with the handover to the clicker, it now takes an
>> inordinate amount of clicks to get a slide set active — and every
>> click gets another “do you really…” forn.  Maybe some time should be
>> spent to make this more streamlined…
> 
> Thats why I use my combined slideset that contains all presentations
> in one PDF file separated by header pages. We simply open that one
> slideset, pass control to clicker, and then physically pass the
> clicker from one presenter to next one...
> 
> This time we also happened to have all presenters local, so that
> should have been 0-click operation (it was not because of some other
> issues).

that works if all the presenters are in the room.  You still need to revoke clicker permissions and then pass slide control to get to a remote presenter.

Russ