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Advanced, VMware Horizon View multi-monitor sessions, VMware Horizon View keyboard shortcuts

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Option Error Timeout Description action. At the end of this period, the RDP client attempts a quick reconnection with the session. Specifies the amount of time in seconds after receiving the last network traffic from the server that the RDP client waits before stopping attempts to reconnect with that server. TIP: Select the ? icon next to this field for more information. Advanced NOTE: See Advanced connection settings on page 8 for information about the settings available under the Advanced category when editing a connection. VMware Horizon View multi-monitor sessions VMware Horizon View supports multi-monitor sessions. To enhance the virtualization experience, the default VMware Horizon View sessions use full-screen and span all monitors. To choose a different window size, select Full Screen - All Monitors under the protocol type of the desktop pool for the connection and then choose another option from the window size list. The next time you connect to a session the window will open in the selected size. VMware Horizon View keyboard shortcuts Windows keyboard shortcuts To help administer Windows systems, VMware Horizon View supports Windows keyboard shortcuts. For example, when Ctrl+Alt+Del is used, VMware Horizon View displays a message that provides the following options: ● Send a Ctrl+Alt+Del command. ● Disconnect the session-Use this when you have no other way of ending the session. Windows keyboard shortcuts will be forwarded to the remote desktop session. The result is that local keyboard shortcuts, such as Ctrl+Alt+Tab and Ctrl+Alt+F4, will not function while inside the remote session. TIP: To be able to switch sessions, disable the Hide top Menu bar option in the VMware Horizon View Connection Manager or via the registry key root/ConnectionType/view/connections// hideMenuBar. Media keys VMware Horizon View uses media keys to control options such as volume, play/pause, and mute during a remote desktop session. This supports multimedia programs such as Windows Media Player. VMware Horizon View multimedia redirection VMware Horizon View connections support MMR functionality when used with the Microsoft RDP protocol. For more information, see RDP multimedia redirection on page 22. 28 Chapter 4 Connection types

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Option
Description
action. At the end of this period, the RDP client attempts a quick reconnection with the
session.
Error Timeout
Specifies
the amount of time in seconds after receiving the last network
traffic
from the
server that the RDP client waits before stopping attempts to reconnect with that server.
TIP:
Select the
?
icon next to this
field
for more information.
Advanced
NOTE:
See
Advanced connection settings
on page
8
for information about the settings available under the
Advanced category when editing a connection.
VMware Horizon View multi-monitor sessions
VMware Horizon View supports multi-monitor sessions. To enhance the virtualization experience, the default
VMware Horizon View sessions use full-screen and span all monitors. To choose a
different
window size,
select
Full Screen – All Monitors
under the protocol type of the desktop pool for the connection and then
choose another option from the window size list. The next time you connect to a session the window will open
in the selected size.
VMware Horizon View keyboard shortcuts
Windows keyboard shortcuts
To help administer Windows systems, VMware Horizon View supports Windows keyboard shortcuts. For
example, when
Ctrl
+
Alt
+
Del
is used, VMware Horizon View displays a message that provides the following
options:
Send a
Ctrl
+
Alt
+
Del
command.
Disconnect the session—Use this when you have no other way of ending the session.
Windows keyboard shortcuts will be forwarded to the remote desktop session. The result is that local
keyboard shortcuts, such as
Ctrl
+
Alt
+
Tab
and
Ctrl
+
Alt
+
F4
, will not function while inside the remote session.
TIP:
To be able to switch sessions, disable the
Hide top Menu bar
option in the VMware Horizon View
Connection Manager or via the registry key
root/ConnectionType/view/connections/<UUID>/
hideMenuBar
.
Media keys
VMware Horizon View uses media keys to control options such as volume, play/pause, and mute during a
remote desktop session. This supports multimedia programs such as Windows Media Player.
VMware Horizon View multimedia redirection
VMware Horizon View connections support MMR functionality when used with the Microsoft RDP protocol.
For more information, see
RDP multimedia redirection
on page
22
.
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Chapter 4
Connection types