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Table 2‑2. Horizon Client Command-Line Options and Configuration File Keys (Continued)
Configuration Key Command-Line Option Description
None
--printEnvironmentInfo
Displays information about the environment of a client
device, including its IP address, MAC address, machine
name, and domain name.
For kiosk mode, you can create an account for the client
based on the MAC address. To display the MAC
address, you must use this option with the -s option.
Example of using the command-line option:
--printEnvironmentInfo
-s view.company.com
None
--usb=
Species which options to use for USB redirection. See
“System Requirements for USB Redirection,” on
page 71.
None
--version
Displays version information about Horizon Client.
Example: Kiosk Mode Example
Kiosk users might include customers at airline check-in stations, students in classrooms or libraries, medical
personnel at medical data entry workstations, or customers at self-service points. Accounts are associated
with client devices rather than users because users do not need to log in to use the client device or the View
desktop. Users can still be required to provide authentication credentials for some applications.
To set up kiosk mode, you must use the vdmadmin command-line interface on the View Connection Server
instance and perform several procedures documented in the chapter about kiosk mode in the View
Administration document. After you set up kiosk mode, you can use the vmware-view command on a Linux
client to connect to a View desktop in kiosk mode.
To connect to View desktops from Linux clients in kiosk mode, you must, at a minimum, include the
following conguration keys or command-line options.
Configuration Key Equivalent Command-line Options
view.kioskLogin --kioskLogin
view.nonInteractive -q, --nonInteractive
view.fullScreen --fullscreen
view.nomenubar --nomenubar
view.defaultBroker -s, --serverURL=
Omiing any of these conguration seings is not supported for kiosk mode. If View Connection Server is
set up to require a non-default kiosk user name, you must also set the view.defaultUser property or use
the -u or --userName= command-line option. If a non-default user name is not required and you do not
specify a user name, Horizon Client can derive and use the default kiosk user name.
N If you set the view.sslVerificationMode conguration key, be sure to set it in
the /etc/vmware/view-mandatory-config le. When the client runs in kiosk mode, the client does not look in
the view-preferences le.
The command shown in this example runs Horizon Client on a Linux client system and has the following
characteristics:
n
The user account name is based on the client's MAC address.
n
Horizon Client runs in full screen mode without a Horizon Client menu bar.
n
Users are automatically connected to the specied View Connection Server instance and View desktop
and are not prompted for login credentials.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Linux
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