User manual
Table Of Contents
- Using VMware Horizon View Client for Windows
- Contents
- Using VMware Horizon View Client for Windows
- System Requirements and Setup for Windows-Based View Clients
- System Requirements for Windows Clients
- System Requirements for Real-Time Audio-Video
- Requirements for Using Multimedia Redirection (MMR)
- Requirements for Using Flash URL Redirection
- Requirements for Using Microsoft Lync with Horizon View Client
- Smart Card Authentication Requirements
- Client Browser Requirements for View Portal
- Supported Desktop Operating Systems
- Preparing View Connection Server for Horizon View Client
- Horizon View Client Data Collected by VMware
- Installing View Client for Windows
- Configuring Horizon View Client for End Users
- Managing Server Connections and Desktops
- Working in a View Desktop
- Feature Support Matrix
- Internationalization
- Using Multiple Monitors
- Connect USB Devices
- Using the Real-Time Audio-Video Feature for Webcams and Microphones
- Copying and Pasting Text and Images
- Printing from a Remote Desktop
- Control Adobe Flash Display
- Using the Relative Mouse Feature for CAD and 3D Applications
- Troubleshooting Horizon View Client
- Index
Prerequisites
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Verify that you have a USB microphone or another type of microphone installed and operational on
your client system.
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Verify that you are using the PCoIP display protocol for your remote desktop.
Procedure
1 If you are currently on a call, stop the call.
2 Right-click the speaker icon in your system tray and select Recording devices.
You can alternatively open the Sound control from the Control Panel and click the Recording tab.
3 In the Recording tab of the Sound dialog box, right-click the microphone you prefer to use.
4 Select Set as Default Device and click OK.
5 Start a new call from your View desktop.
Copying and Pasting Text and Images
By default, you can copy and paste text from your client system to a remote desktop. If your administrator
enables the feature, you can also copy and paste text from a remote desktop to your client system or
between two remote desktops. Some restrictions apply.
If you use the PCoIP display protocol and you are using a Horizon View 5.x or later remote desktop, your
View administrator can set this feature so that copy and paste operations are allowed only from your client
system to a remote desktop, or only from a remote desktop to your client system, or both, or neither.
Administrators configure the ability to copy and paste by using group policy objects (GPOs) that pertain to
View Agent in remote desktops. For more information, see the topic about View PCoIP general session
variables in the VMware Horizon View Administration document, in the chapter about configuring policies.
Supported file formats include text, images, and RTF (Rich Text Format). The clipboard can accommodate
1MB of data for copy and paste operations. If you are copying formatted text, some of the data is text and
some of the data is formatting information. For example, an 800KB document might use more than 1MB of
data when it is copied because more than 200KB of RTF data might get put in the clipboard.
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 of the plain text but no formatting 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 1MB, the formatted text is pasted. Often the RTF data cannot
be truncated, so that if the text and formatting use more than 1MB, the RTF data is discarded, and plain text
is pasted.
If you are unable to paste all of 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 your client computer.
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