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4 In Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app), use the defaults write command to set the
preferred webcam or microphone.
Option Action
Set the preferred webcam
Type
defaults write com.vmware.rtav srcWCamId "webcam-userid",
where webcam-userid is the user ID of the preferred webcam, which you
obtained from the Real-Time Audio-Video log le. For example:
defaults write com.vmware.rtav srcWCamId "HD Webcam C525”
Set the preferred microphone
Type
defaults write com.vmware.rtav srcAudioInId "audio-device-
userid", where audio-device-userid is the user ID of the preferred
microphone, which you obtained from the Real-Time Audio-Video log le.
For example:
defaults write com.vmware.rtav srcAudioInId "Built-in
Microphone"
5 (Optional) Use the defaults read command to verify your changes to the Real-Time Audio-Video
feature.
For example: defaults read com.vmware.rtav
The command lists all of the Real-Time Audio-Video seings.
The next time you connect to a remote desktop and start a new call, the desktop uses the preferred webcam
or microphone that you congured, 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 a
Horizon 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. Supported le formats
include text, images, and RTF (Rich Text Format). Some restrictions apply.
If you use the VMware Blast display protocol or the PCoIP display protocol, a Horizon 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.
Horizon administrators congure the ability to copy and paste by conguring group policy seings that
pertain to Horizon Agent. Depending on the Horizon server and agent version, administrators might also be
able to use group policies to restrict clipboard formats during copy and paste operations or use Smart
Policies to control copy and paste behavior in remote desktops. For more information, see the Conguring
Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7 document.
In Horizon 7 version 7.0 and earlier and Horizon Client 4.0 and earlier, the clipboard can accommodate 1
MB of data for copy and paste operations. In Horizon 7 version 7.0.1 and later and Horizon Client 4.1 and
later, the clipboard memory size is congurable for both the server and the client. When a PCoIP or VMware
Blast session is established, the server sends its clipboard memory size to the client. The eective clipboard
memory size is the lesser of the server and client clipboard memory size values.
If you are copying formaed text, some of the data is text and some of the data is formaing information. If
you copy a large amount of formaed text or text and an image, when you aempt to paste the text and
image, you might see some or all of the plain text but no formaing 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 maximum clipboard size, the formaed text is pasted. Often
the RTF data cannot be truncated, so that if the text and formaing use more than the maximum clipboard
size amount, the RTF data is discarded, and plain text is pasted.
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