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Hardware Version Windows Version
Number of 4K Displays
Supported
11 7 (3D rendering feature enabled) 1
11 8, 8.x, 10 1
Note When the remote desktop screen resolution is set to 3840 x 2160 (4K), items on the screen
might appear smaller, and you might not be able to use the Screen Resolution dialog box in the
remote desktop to make text and other items larger.
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With RDP, if you have multiple monitors, you cannot adjust the resolution for each monitor separately.
Keyboard Limitations
For the most part, keyboards work as well with a remote desktop as they do with a physical computer.
Following is a list of the limitations you might encounter, depending on the type of peripherals and
software on your client system:
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If you use the PCoIP display protocol and want the remote desktop to detect which keyboard map
your client system uses, such as, for example, a Japanese keyboard or a German keyboard, you
must set a GPO in the View agent. Use the Turn on PCOIP user default input language
synchronization policy, available as part of the View PCoIP Session Variables ADM template file.
For more information, see the Configuring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7 document.
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Some multimedia keys on a multimedia keyboard might not work. For example, the Music key and My
Computer key might not work.
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If you connect to a desktop using RDP and if you have the Fluxbox window manager, if a screen
saver is running in the remote desktop, after a period of inactivity, the keyboard might stop working.
Regardless of which window manager you use, VMware recommends turning off the screen saver in
a remote desktop and not specifying a sleep timer.
Connect USB Devices
You can access locally attached USB devices, such as thumb flash drives, cameras, and printers, from a
remote desktop. This feature is called USB redirection.
With this feature, most USB devices that are attached to the local client system are available from a menu
in Horizon Client. You can use the menu to connect and disconnect the devices.
Using USB devices with remote desktops has the following limitations:
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When you access a USB device from a menu in Horizon Client and use the device in a remote
desktop, you cannot access the device on the local computer.
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USB devices that do not appear in the menu, but are available in a remote desktop, include human
interface devices such as keyboards and pointing devices. The remote desktop and the local
computer use these devices at the same time. Interaction with these devices can sometimes be slow
because of network latency.
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