Installation and Setup Guide

Horizon Client starts and connects to the view.mycompany.com server. The login box prompts the
user for a user name, domain name, and password. After a successful login, Horizon Client displays
a dialog box that prompts the user to confirm the reset operation for Primary Desktop.
Note This action is available only if a Horizon administrator has enabled the desktop reset feature
for the desktop.
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vmware-view://view.mycompany.com/Primary%20Desktop?action=restart
Horizon Client starts and connects to the view.mycompany.com server. The login box prompts the
user for a user name, domain name, and password. After a successful login, Horizon Client displays
a dialog box that prompts the user to confirm the restart operation for Primary Desktop.
Note This action is available only if a Horizon administrator has enabled the desktop restart feature
for the desktop.
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vmware-view://view.mycompany.com/Primary%20Desktop?action=start-session&connectUSBOnStartup=true
This URI has the same effect as the first example, and all USB devices connected to the client
system are redirected to the remote desktop.
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vmware-view://
This URI starts Horizon Client if it is not running, or brings Horizon Client to the foreground if it is
running.
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vmware-view://10.10.10.10/My%20Notepad++?args=%22My%20new%20file.txt%22
Launches My Notepad++ on server 10.10.10.10 and passes the argument My new file.txt in the
application launch command. Spaces and double quotes use percent escaping. The filename is
enclosed in double quotes because it contains spaces.
You can also type this command at the Windows command line prompt by using the following syntax:
vmware-view.exe --serverURL 10.10.10.10 --appName "My Notepad++" --args "\"my new.txt\""
In this example, double quotes are escaped by using the characters \".
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vmware-view://10.10.10.10/Notepad++%2012?args=a.txt%20b.txt
Launches Notepad++ 12 on server 10.10.10.10 and passes the argument a.text b.txt in the
application launch command. Because the argument is not enclosed in quotes, a space separates the
filenames and the two files are opened separately in Notepad++.
Note Applications can differ in the way they use command line arguments. For example, if you pass
the argument a.txt b.txt to Wordpad, Wordpad will open only one file, a.txt.
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