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If you have left a session idle for some amount of time, before the session times out, you receive a prompt,
asking if you want to keep the session alive. Tap or click anywhere on the screen or press a key on your
keyboard to keep the session alive. If enough time has passed so that the connection to the desktop or
application was lost, you are returned to the desktop and application selector screen and are prompted to
reconnect.
IMPORTANT If you have Horizon Client 3.4 or later, you can turn on a setting that increases the amount of
time that Horizon Client can run in the background or remain idle without requiring you to log in again or
manually reconnect. Swipe in from the right to display the charms list, tap Settings > General settings, and
turn on Reconnect automatically to open applications or desktops in the Advanced section. This feature is
supported if you are connecting to View Connection Server 6.0 or later to access your desktops and
applications.
Saving Documents in a Remote Application
With certain remote applications, such as Microsoft Word or WordPad, you can create and save documents.
Where these documents are saved depends on your company's network environment. For example, your
documents might be saved to a home share mounted on your local computer.
Administrators can use an ADMX template file to set a group policy that specifies where documents are
saved. This policy is called "Set Remote Desktop Services User Home Directory." For more information, see
the "RDS Profiles Settings" topic in the Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View document.
Copying and Pasting Text
It is possible to copy text to and from remote desktops and applications. 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 application, or only from a remote desktop or application to your client system, or both, or neither.
Copying text from and to remote applications is also supported with Horizon 6.0 or later.
Administrators configure the ability to copy and paste by using group policy objects (GPOs) that pertain to
View Agent in remote desktops. For more information, see the topic about View PCoIP general session
variables in Setting Up Desktops and Applications in View, in the chapter about configuring policies.
You can copy text, including any non-ASCII characters, from Horizon Client to a remote desktop or
application, or the reverse, but the pasted text is plain text. You can copy and paste up to 64KB of text. If you
paste characters into an operating system that does not support the display font for the characters, the
characters might not appear. For example, if you copy a Chinese character and paste it into an operating
system that does not support Chinese characters, the character will not appear.
To copy text from your client system and paste it into a remote application or desktop, you copy and paste
as you normally would. To copy text from an application in your remote desktop or application, however,
you must select the text and then click Copy to Client in the app commands at the bottom of the screen. You
must also use Copy to Client to copy and paste text between one remote application and another. (Swipe up
from the bottom of the screen to display app commands, or use the Win+Z key combination.)
You cannot copy and paste graphics. You also cannot copy and paste files between a remote desktop and
the file system on your client computer.
Quit the VMware Horizon App
You can quit or close the VMware Horizon app just as you would any Windows Store app.
You have several methods for quitting the app.
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If you use an external mouse device, point to the top of the screen until the VMware Horizon title bar
appears, and click the X at the right end of the title bar.
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