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The next time you connect to a remote desktop and start a new call, the desktop uses the preferred webcam
or microphone that you configured, if it is available. If the preferred webcam or microphone is not available,
the remote desktop can use another available webcam or microphone.
Copying and Pasting Text and Images
By default, you can copy and paste text from your client system to a remote desktop or application. If your
administrator enables the feature, you can also copy and paste text from a remote desktop or application to
your client system or between two remote desktops or applications. Some restrictions apply.
If you use the PCoIP display protocol and you are using a View 5.x or later remote desktop, your View
administrator can set this feature so that copy and paste operations are allowed only from your client
system to a remote desktop, or only from a remote desktop to your client system, or both, or neither. If you
are using a Horizon 6.0 with View remote application, the same rules apply.
Administrators configure the ability to copy and paste by using group policy objects (GPOs) that pertain to
View Agent in remote desktops or applications. For more information, see the topic about View PCoIP
general session variables, which includes the setting called Configure clipboard redirection in the Setting
Up Desktop and Application Pools for View document, in the chapter about configuring policies.
Supported file formats include text, images, and RTF (Rich Text Format). The clipboard can accommodate
1MB of data for copy and paste operations. If you are copying formatted text, some of the data is text and
some of the data is formatting information. For example, an 800KB document might use more than 1MB of
data when it is copied because more than 200KB of RTF data might get put in the clipboard.
If you copy a large amount of formatted text or text and an image, when you attempt to paste the text and
image, you might see some or all of the plain text but no formatting or image. The reason is that the three
types of data are sometimes stored separately. For example, depending on the type of document you are
copying from, images might be stored as images or as RTF data.
If the text and RTF data together use less than 1MB, the formatted text is pasted. Often the RTF data cannot
be truncated, so that if the text and formatting use more than 1MB, the RTF data is discarded, and plain text
is pasted.
If you are unable to paste all of the formatted text and images you selected in one operation, you might need
to copy and paste smaller amounts in each operation.
You cannot copy and paste files between a remote desktop and the file system on your client computer.
Using Remote Applications
You can use many Mac functions with remote applications.
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When you run a remote application, its icon appears in the Dock. You can maximize a minimized
remote application by clicking its icon in the Dock.
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You can keep, open, and quit a remote application from its context menu in the Dock. If you select Keep
in Dock, the remote application icon remains in the Dock, even after you close all application windows.
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In Horizon Client 3.1 and later, you can launch a remote application by clicking its icon in the Dock.
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In Horizon Client 3.2 and later, flashing Windows taskbar items are forwarded to Horizon Client. For
example, if the remote application is an IM client and you receive a new message, a flashing red dot
appears on the IM client's icon in the Dock.
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You can start voice dictation, minimize, and zoom a remote application from the menu bar.
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You can use the Exposé feature to see open remote applications, and you can press Command-Tab to
switch between open remote applications.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Mac OS X
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