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Procedure
1 Click the link in the collaboration invitation.
Horizon Client opens on the client system.
2 Enter your credentials to log in to Horizon Client.
After you are successfully authenticated, the collaborative session begins and you can see the
session owner's remote desktop. If the session owner transfers mouse and keyboard control to you,
you can use the remote desktop.
3 To return mouse and keyboard control to the session owner, click the VMware Horizon Session
Collaboration icon in the system tray and toggle the switch in the Control column to Off, or click the
Give Back Control button.
4 To leave the collaborative session, click Options > Disconnect.
Copying and Pasting Text and Images
By default, you can copy and paste text from the local 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 the client system or between two remote desktops or applications.
Supported file formats include text, images, and RTF (Rich Text Format). Some restrictions apply.
A Horizon administrator can configure the ability to copy and paste by configuring group policy settings
that pertain to Horizon Agent. Depending on the Horizon server and agent version, an administrator might
also be able to use group policies to restrict clipboard formats during copy and paste operations or use
Smart Policies to control the copy and paste behavior in remote desktops. For more information, see the
Configuring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7 document.
If you are copying formatted text, some of the data is text and some of the data is formatting information.
If you copy a large amount of formatted text or text and an image, when you attempt to paste the text and
image, you might see some or all the plain text but no formatting or image. The reason is that the three
types of data is 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 formatted text is pasted.
Often the RTF data cannot be truncated, so that if the text and formatting 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 the formatted text and images you selected in one operation, you might
need to copy and paste smaller amounts in each operation.
You cannot copy and paste files between a remote desktop and the file system on the local client
computer.
Configuring the Client Clipboard Memory Size
You can configure the client clipboard memory size by creating a file named config in the %HomeDir
%/Library/Preferences/VMware Horizon View/ directory on the Mac client system.
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