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Using Native Operating System Gestures with Touch Redirection
You can use native operating system gestures from a touch-based mobile device when you are connected to
a Windows 8, Windows 10, or Windows Server 2012 remote desktop, or to a remote application that is
hosted on Windows Server 2012. For example, you can touch, hold, and release an item on a Windows 8
desktop to display the item's context menu.
When touch redirection is enabled, you can use only native operating system touch gestures. Horizon Client
local gestures, such as double-click and pinch, no longer work. You must drag the Unity Touch tab buon to
display the Unity Touch sidebar.
Touch redirection is enabled by default when you connect to a Windows 8, Windows 10, or Windows Server
2012 remote desktop, or to a remote application that is hosted on Windows Server 2012.
To disable touch redirection, open , tap Touch, and deselect the Windows native touch gestures
check box. If you are connected to a remote desktop or application in full-screen mode, tap the
Horizon Client Tools radial menu icon and tap the gear icon. If you are not using full-screen mode, 
is in the menu in the upper-right corner of the Horizon Client toolbar. If you are not connected to a remote
desktop or application, tap the gear icon in the upper right corner of the Horizon Client window.
Copying and Pasting Text and Images
By default, you can copy and paste plain text from an Android device to a remote desktop or application. If
a Horizon administrator enables the feature, you can also copy and paste plain text from a remote desktop
or application to the Android device, or between two remote desktops or applications.
A Horizon administrator can congure this feature so that copy and paste operations are allowed only from
the Android device to a remote desktop or application, or only from a remote desktop or application to the
Android device, or both, or neither.
You can also copy and paste images and Rich Text Format (RTF) text, but the following restrictions apply:
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You can copy and paste images and RTF text from the Android device to a remote desktop or
application. You cannot copy and paste images and RTF text from a remote desktop or application to
the Android device.
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Only Google apps are supported. For example, you can copy and paste images and RTF text from
Google Docs, Gmail, Chrome, Google+, Google Hangouts, Google Calendar, Google Sheets, and Google
Slides.
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You can copy and paste images only when the Android device can access the Google website.
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If you select an image and RTF text (or plain text) together, the image is discarded and only the text is
copied and pasted. To copy and paste an image, you must select only the image.
The clipboard can accommodate a maximum of 1 MB of data for copy and paste operations. 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. If you are unable to paste all of the formaed text you
selected in one operation, you might need to copy and paste smaller amounts in each operation.
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.
Contact your system administrator to nd out where documents created in remote applications are saved in
your environment.
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