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These settings are not enabled by default. You can change the preferences if generic USB devices must be connected automatically. Alternatively, an administrator can override the user preferences by deploying the corresponding policies from Citrix Workspace app Group Policy Object administrative template. Citrix recommends using explicit device rules to identify specific devices or interfaces that need to be split instead of changing the default. This setting will be deprecated in a future release.

Citrix recommends that you do not split interfaces for a webcam. As a workaround, redirect the device to a single device using Generic USB redirection. For a better performance, use the optimized virtual channel. Citrix Workspace app supports the use of Bloomberg keyboard in a virtual apps and desktops session. The required components are installed with the plug-in. You can enable the Bloomberg keyboard feature when installing Citrix Workspace app for Windows or by using the Registry editor.

Bloomberg keyboards provide other functionality when compared to standard keyboards, that allows the user to access financial market data and perform trades. In addition to the normal functionality of these devices, the audio device includes support for some keys, control of the keyboard, and keyboard LEDs. To use the specialized functionality inside a session, you must redirect the audio device as a USB device. This redirect makes the audio device available to the session, but prevents the audio device from being used locally.

In addition, the specialized functionality can only be used with one session and cannot be shared between multiple sessions. Multiple sessions with Bloomberg keyboards are not recommended. The keyboard operates in a single-session environment only. You must configure various interfaces of the Bloomberg keyboard. IIRC, newlines, or semicolon can be used to separate rules which allows to read either single line or multi-line registry values.

This procedure makes the Bloomberg keyboard 5 ready for use. The DENY rules that are mentioned in the steps enforce the redirection of the primary keyboard and audio channel over an optimized channel but not over Generic USB. The CONNECT rules enable automatic redirection of the fingerprint module, special keys on the keyboard, and keys related to audio control. Citrix cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of the Registry editor can be solved.

Use the Registry editor at your own risk. Bloomberg keyboard 3 support is available in the online plug-in If the value is 1, support is enabled. Citrix Receiver for Windows 4. However, you must use the Bloomberg keyboard feature instead of this policy for the Bloomberg keyboard 4. The support for the Bloomberg keyboard changes the way certain USB devices are redirected to a session.

This support is not enabled by default. To enable support after installing the online plug-in, edit the Windows Registry on the system where the online plug-in is running:. For Bloomberg 3, a single session or the local system can use the fingerprint reader, and cannot be shared.

Bloomberg 4 is prohibited for redirection. If you enable support for Bloomberg keyboards in the online plug-in, you have the benefit of sharing the specialized keyboard functionality with multiple sessions. You also experience less network bandwidth from the audio. Enabling support for the Bloomberg keyboard prevents the redirection of the Bloomberg Keyboard audio device. Instead, a new device is made available. Redirecting this device provides the specialized Bloomberg keys to the session.

Enabling the Bloomberg keyboard support only affects the specialized Bloomberg keys and the audio device. Because the ordinary keys and fingerprint reader are used in the same way as when the support is not enabled. You can apply high DPI in a session but the feature is disabled by default. Session scaling follows the operating system resolution. The DPI settings dialog appears.

The use cases for the different settings are as follows. The scaled setting scales the resolution on the VDA similarly to Operating system scaling, however this setting supports mixed DPI scenarios. Scaling might cause blurriness in the images, particularly in the case of text. There can be poor performance when connecting to legacy VDAs 6. By design, seamless apps jumps between monitors in this mode to maintain correct scaling.

This setting is recommended for users on Windows 10 connecting to modern VDAs. It supports mixed DPI without any additional impact on server resources. The unscaled setting sends the full resolution of all monitors in the session. These resolutions are unscaled and can result in small text and icons in apps and desktops. However, such setting is not possible on RDS desktops, or seamless applications.

Enabling this setting causes sessions with higher resolution which can impact server performance and scalability. This setting is recommended for desktop sessions requiring the best image quality, where the additional server resources are acceptable. It can also be used in cases where the small text and icons are not an issue for the user.

Operating system scaling is the default and corresponds to the UI setting Let the operating system scale the resolution. This works well for single monitor sessions, and is efficient when connecting to 6. Scaling can cause blurriness in the images, particularly in the case of text. There might also be issues with cursor sizes on the Windows 10 Operating system. Citrix recommends this setting for users on Windows 7 endpoints, or those connecting to legacy VDAs.

This feature lets you define a virtual monitor layout for the remote desktop. Those issues are the result of a third-party limitation. For more information, see the Microsoft Support article. To enable generic client IME, run the wfica To disable generic client IME, run the wfica You can use the command-line switch wfica This command does not affect keyboard layout synchronization settings.

If you have disabled generic client IME using the command-line interface, you can enable the feature again by running the wfica Citrix Workspace app supports toggle functionality for this feature. You can run the wfica However, the keyboard layout synchronization settings take precedence over the toggle switch. If keyboard layout synchronization is set to Off , toggling does not enable generic client IME.

Generic client IME feature can be enabled by enabling keyboard layout synchronization. For more information, see Keyboard layout synchronization.

Citrix Workspace app allows you to configure different options to use generic client IME. You can select from one these options based on your requirements and usage. The different options for IME modes appear in the top-right corner of the session. The different options for IME modes appear in the top-right corner of the session while switching using these hotkey combinations.

Citrix Workspace app supports the use of the H. In Citrix Workspace app for Windows, this feature is set to Disabled by default. Configuring Citrix Workspace app to use H. Enabling H. You can hide all or part of the Advanced Preferences sheet available from the Citrix Workspace app icon in the notification area. Keyboard layout synchronization enables you to switch among preferred keyboard layouts on the client device.

This feature is disabled by default. The keyboard layout synchronization allows the client keyboard layout to automatically synchronize to the virtual apps and desktops session. To configure keyboard layout synchronization using the GPO administrative template:. Allow dynamic sync - From the drop-down menu, select Yes or No.

This option synchronizes the client keyboard layout to the server when you change the client keyboard layout. Sync mode on session launch - From the drop-down menu, select one of the following options:. To configure keyboard layout synchronization using the graphical user interface:. The session reverts to the keyboard layout provided by the remote server when they connect to the next session.

Sometimes, switching the client keyboard layout does not take effect in an active session. To resolve this issue, log off from Citrix Workspace app and login again. The following procedure applies only on Windows server and later. On Windows Server R2 and earlier, the keyboard sync feature is enabled by default. After you enable the keyboard layout on both the VDA and Citrix Workspace app, the following window appears when you switch keyboard layouts. This window indicates that the session keyboard layout is being switched to the client keyboard layout.

For more information about the keyboard layout synchronization feature on Linux VDA, see Dynamic keyboard layout synchronization. The keyboard layout change notification dialog lets you know that the VDA session is switching the keyboard layout.

The keyboard layout switch needs approximately two seconds to switch. When you hide the notification dialog, wait for some time before you start typing to avoid incorrect character input. The language bar displays the preferred input language in a session. The language bar appears in a session by default. You can hide the language bar tab from the Advanced Preferences sheet by using the registry.

You can plug USB devices into their computers and the devices are remote to their virtual desktop. USB devices available for remoting include flash drives, smartphones, PDAs, printers, scanners, MP3 players, security devices, and tablets.

Isochronous features in USB devices, such as webcams, microphones, speakers, and headsets are supported in typical low latency or high-speed LAN environments. Such environment allows these devices to interact with packages, like Microsoft Office Communicator and Skype. The following types of device are supported directly in a virtual apps and desktops session, and so does not use USB support:. For information on configuring Bloomberg keyboards, see Configure Bloomberg keyboards.

Remoting this device would not be appropriate. The following types of USB device are not supported by default in a virtual apps and desktops session:. The following types of USB device are not supported by default for use in a virtual apps session:.

When a user plugs in a USB device, it is checked against the USB policy, and, if allowed, remoted to the virtual desktop. If the default policy denies a device, it is available only to the local desktop. When a user plugs in a USB device, a notification appears to inform the user about a new device.

The user can select which USB devices must be remoted to the virtual desktop each time they connect. For mass storage devices only, in addition to USB support, remote access is available through client drive mapping. When you apply this policy, the drives on the user device automatically map to drive letters on the virtual desktop when users log on.

The drives are displayed as shared folders with mapped drive letters. If you enable both Generic USB and the client drive-mapping policies and insert a mass storage device before a session starts, it is redirected using client drive mapping first, before being considered for redirection through USB support. If it is inserted after a session has started, it will be considered for redirection using USB support before client drive mapping.

Although they are on this list, some classes are only available for remoting in virtual apps and desktops sessions after additional configuration.

Such USB device classes are as follows. Some specialty devices for example, VOIP phones require additional configuration. Still Imaging Class 06 - Includes digital cameras and scanners. Cameras might also appear as mass storage devices.

It might be also possible to configure a camera to use either class, through the setup menus provided by the camera itself. If a camera appears as a mass storage device, client drive mapping is used and USB support is not required.

Printers Class 07 - In general most printers are included in this class, although some use vendor-specific protocols class ff. Multi-function printers might have an internal hub or be composite devices. In both cases the printing element generally uses the Printers class and the scanning or fax element uses another class; for example, Still Imaging.

This class of device in particular printers with scanning functions requires additional configuration. There are a wide variety of devices with internal storage that also present a mass storage interface; these include media players, digital cameras, and mobile phones. Known subclasses include:. Mass storage devices can often be accessed through client drive mapping, and so USB support is not required.

Content Security Class 0d - Content security devices enforce content protection, typically for licensing or digital rights management. This class includes dongles. Video Class 0e - The video class cover devices that are used to manipulate video or video-related material. Devices, such as webcams, digital camcorders, analog video converters, some television tuners, and some digital cameras that support video streaming. Most video streaming devices use isochronous transfers that XenDesktop 4 or later supports.

Some video devices for example webcams with motion detection require additional configuration. Personal Healthcare Class 0f - These devices include personal healthcare devices such as blood pressure sensors, heart rate monitors, pedometers, pill monitors, and spirometry. Application and Vendor Specific Classes fe and ff - Many devices use vendor-specific protocols or protocols not standardized by the USB consortium, and such devices usually appear as vendor-specific class ff.

Human Interface Devices Class Includes a wide variety of both input and output devices. Typical Human Interface Devices HIDs are keyboards, mice, pointing devices, graphic tablets, sensors, game controllers, buttons, and control functions.

The reason is most keyboards and mice are handled appropriately without USB support. Also, it is normally necessary to use these devices locally as well remotely when you connect to a virtual desktop.

USB Hubs Class USB hubs allow extra devices to be connected to the local computer. It is not necessary to access these devices remotely. Smart Card Class 0b. Smart card readers include contactless and contact smart card readers, and also USB tokens with an embedded smart card-equivalent chip.

Wireless Controller Class e0. Some of these devices might be providing critical network access, or connecting critical peripherals, such as Bluetooth keyboards or mice. The default USB policy does not allow these devices. However, there might be particular devices to which it is appropriate to provide access using USB support. Miscellaneous network devices Class ef, subclass 04 - Some of these devices might be providing critical network access. Edit the Citrix Workspace for Windows template file to update the range of USB devices available for remoting to desktops.

The file is in the following installed folder:. Editing the Registry incorrectly can cause serious problems that might require you to reinstall your operating system. When you launch the application, Citrix Workspace app reads the resource data present on the StoreFront server and applies the settings based on the vprefer flag at the time of enumeration.

If present, launches the local instance of the application. Otherwise, a hosted instance of the application is launched. If you launch an application that is not on the VDA, Citrix Workspace app launches the hosted application. For more information on how StoreFront handled the local launch, see Control of local application launch on published desktops in the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops documentation.

For more information, see the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops documentation. This feature helps to launch applications faster, thereby providing a better user experience. By default, vPrefer is enabled only in a double-hop scenario. When you upgrade or install Citrix Workspace app for the first time, add the latest template files to the local GPO. For an upgrade, the existing settings are retained while importing the latest files. Citrix Workspace app for Windows supports configuring Workspace for subscribers, who might be using one or more services available from Citrix Cloud.

Citrix Workspace app intelligently displays only the specific workspace resources to which users are entitled. All your digital workspace resources available in Citrix Workspace app are powered by the Citrix Cloud Workspace experience service. A workspace is part of a digital workspace solution that enables IT to securely deliver access to apps from any device. This screenshot is an example of what the workspace experience looks like to your subscribers. This interface is evolving and might look different to what your subscribers are working with today.

Citrix Content Collaboration enables you to easily and securely exchange documents, send large documents by email, securely handle document transfers to third parties, and access a collaboration space.

Citrix Content Collaboration provides many ways to work, including a web-based interface, mobile clients, desktop apps, and integration with Microsoft Outlook and Gmail. You can view the Files tab only if Content Collaboration Service is enabled in the Workspace configuration from the Citrix Cloud console. The following image displays example contents of the Files tab of the new Citrix Workspace app:.

Secure access to SaaS applications provides a unified user experience that delivers published SaaS applications to the users. SaaS apps are available with single sign-on. Administrators can achieve this by filtering access to specific websites and website categories. The service enables administrators to provide a cohesive experience, integrating single sign-on, and content inspection.

For information, see Citrix Enterprise Browser documentation. For more information about Workspace configuration, see Workspace configuration in Citrix Cloud. Windows Continuum is a Windows 10 feature that adapts to the way the client device is used. Citrix Workspace app for Windows Version 4. It starts in desktop mode when either a keyboard or a mouse or both are attached. Detaching or attaching the keyboard on any client device or the screen on a 2-in-1 device like a Surface Pro toggles between tablet and desktop modes.

For more information, see Tablet mode for touchscreen devices in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops documentation.

On a touch-enabled client device, the Windows 10 VDA detects the presence of a keyboard or mouse when you connect or reconnect to a session. It also detects when you attach or detach a keyboard or mouse during the session. This feature is enabled by default on the VDA. To disable the feature, modify the Tablet mode toggle policy using Citrix Studio. Desktop mode offers the traditional user interface where you interact in the same manner as a PC with a keyboard and mouse.

Citrix Workspace app is instrumented to securely transmit logs to Citrix Analytics. The logs are analyzed and stored on Citrix Analytics servers when enabled. For more information about Citrix Analytics, see Citrix Analytics. The relative mouse feature determines how far the mouse has moved since the last frame within a window or screen. The relative mouse uses the pixel delta between the mouse movements. When you change, for example, the direction of the camera using mouse controls, the feature is efficient.

Relative mouse support provides an option to interpret the mouse position in a relative rather than an absolute manner. The interpretation is required for applications that demand relative mouse input rather than absolute. You can configure the feature both on a per-user and a per-session basis, which gives more granular control on the feature availability. Configuring the feature using the Registry Editor or the default. To configure the feature, set the following registry keys as applicable and then restart the session for the changes to take effect:.

To validate if the policy is set and hardware acceleration is used for an active ICA session, check the following registry entries:. If the value is 1, that means CPU-based decoding is being used.

Citrix Workspace app supports multiple client-side microphone inputs. You can use locally installed microphones for:. Citrix Workspace app users can select whether to use microphones attached to their device using Connection Center. Client drive mapping supports the transfer of data between the host and the client as a stream. The file transfer adapts to the changing network throughput conditions.

It also uses any available extra bandwidth to scale up the data transfer rate. Each monitor in a multiple monitor configuration has its own resolution designed by its manufacturer. Monitors can have different resolutions and orientations during sessions.

Full screen mode, with multiple monitors shown inside the session; applications snap to monitors as they would locally. Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix DaaS: To display the Desktop Viewer window across any rectangular subset of monitors, resize the window across any part of those monitors and click Maximize. Windowed mode, with one single monitor image for the session, applications do not snap to individual monitors.

Multiple virtual desktops can be displayed on one device provided the monitor arrangement is rectangular. If the primary monitor on the device is used by the virtual apps and desktops session, it becomes the primary monitor in the session.

Otherwise, the numerically lowest monitor in the session becomes the primary monitor. Check if the setting is large enough in kilobytes to provide sufficient graphic memory. To enable touch-enabled access to virtual applications and desktops from Windows tablets, Citrix Workspace app automatically displays the on-screen keyboard when:.

You can configure combinations of keys that Citrix Workspace app interprets as having special functionality. When the keyboard shortcuts policy is enabled, you can specify Citrix Hotkey mappings, behavior of Windows hotkeys, and keyboard layout for sessions. Citrix Workspace app supports bit high color icons. To provide for seamless applications, it automatically selects the color depth for:.

The possible color depths for icons are 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32 bits-per-pixel. The user can select a lower color depth for icons if the network connection is slow. Different enterprises might have different corporate needs. Your requirements for the way users access virtual desktops might vary from user to user and as your corporate needs evolve.

The user experience of connecting to virtual desktops and the extent at which the user can configure the connections depend Citrix Workspace app for Windows setup. Use the desktop viewer when users need to interact with their virtual desktop. In this access scenario, the Desktop Viewer toolbar functionality allows the user to open a virtual desktop in a window and pan and scale that desktop inside their local desktop. Users can set preferences and work on more than one desktop using multiple Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix DaaS connections on the same user device.

Use Citrix Workspace app to change the screen resolution on their virtual desktops. Key presses that activate certain Microsoft accessibility features, for example, Sticky Keys, Filter Keys, and Toggle Keys are normally directed to the local computer. Hotkey sequences are key combinations designed by Citrix. However, you can use them with published applications, that is, with virtual apps sessions. If the user tries do so, disconnects the existing desktop session. So, Citrix recommends:.

A user who logs on locally to a computer that is acting as a virtual desktop, blocks connection to that desktop. Device mapping checks if the desktop devices are mapped consistently within desktop and application sessions.

Because local drives are displayed as network drives in desktop sessions, the Citrix Virtual Apps administrator needs to change the drive-mapping policy to include network drives. You can change the amount of time the status indicator displays when a user is launching a session. When you configure this key, the status indicator might appear and disappear frequently.

This behavior is as designed. To suppress the status indicator, do the following:. Admins can configure the inactivity timeout value to specify the amount of idle time allowed before the users automatically sign out of the Citrix Workspace session. The inactivity timeout value can be set starting from a 1 minute to 1, minutes.

Citrix handles your data according to the terms of your contract with Citrix, and protect it as specified in the Citrix Services Security Exhibit. Review how Google handles data collected for Google Analytics. Citrix Workspace app displays the date, time, and number based on the locale of the browser or endpoint device.

Starting from Citrix Workspace app , you can customize regional date, time, and number formats through Regional Settings. Changes made in these settings are saved for an individual user and applied across all devices.

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In this mode, you also configure auto-provisioned and mandatory app keyword settings as needed. If you want the user to choose the applications, they want in their Start menu but also want specific app shortcuts on the desktop. Use auto provisioned and mandatory apps as needed. If you want to prevent Citrix Workspace app from putting application shortcuts in the Start menu automatically.

If you want Citrix Workspace app to put all application shortcuts in the start menu automatically. Failed to load featured products content, Please try again. Customers who viewed this article also viewed. Log in to Verify Download Permissions. Display resolution standards As of this writing the most common resolution for a desktop monitor is x, also referred to as p.

It is important to establish the resolution of a particular 4K monitor. In the context of this article we refer to 4K resolution as x or p which is the most common standard based on the aspect ratio of These ultra-high-resolution monitors are becoming more prevalent in the Enterprise with the arrival of new mobile devices laptops and tablets and as the traditional p monitors get replaced during hardware refresh cycles.

Display resolution and multi-monitor support in the Citrix session The maximum resolution and number of monitors that can be used in a Citrix session is determined based on the display adapter in use.

A Citrix session may use different display adapters, each with its own set of capabilities depending on the virtual desktop agent VDA type and the operating system OS.

There are other factors to consider as well such as the presence of a graphics processing unit GPU and the HDX graphics mode in use. Display resolution is only limited by the Windows OS capabilities or the available video memory for the machine. The amount of video memory that a Citrix session can consume can be configured via Citrix policy. Display resolution is limited to pixels in any dimension.

The VDA must have sufficient memory allocated to support the desired configuration. Windows 10 — Supports up to 8 monitors. Display resolution is limited to pixels in any dimension on 7.

Note: While there are no controls in place to limit resolutions above 4K in Windows 10 VDAs, Citrix development testing is limited to 4K monitors currently. Citrix Receiver for Windows 4.

Performance and scalability considerations In the context of display remoting the size of a user session can vary significantly based on display resolution and the number of monitors alone. Some deployment considerations are listed below: Both display resolution and the number of monitors increase the session size. A user connecting from and endpoint with a single 4K monitor would result in the same session size as a user connecting with four p monitors.

Single server scalability can be reduced significantly by simply upgrading user endpoints with 4K monitors. If 4K monitor support is required additional server resources should be allocated accordingly to maintain desired user density levels.

 


High dpi citrix workspace. Configuration of DPI matching and client-side scaling with Citrix Workspace app for Windows



  As part of this change, the 'High DPI' options that were previously accessible under 'Advance Preferences' in CWA are no longer available. How do I change the resolution of Citrix Workspace? Right-click the CWA for Windows icon in the Windows notification area (systray).    

 

High dpi citrix workspace



    As part of this change, the 'High DPI' options that were previously accessible under 'Advance Preferences' in CWA are no longer available. How do I change the resolution of Citrix Workspace? Right-click the CWA for Windows icon in the Windows notification area (systray).


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