Customizable Session Features

The following PCoIP session features can be customized:

• Session Menu bar Visibility
• Disable Hot Keys
• Windowed or Fullscreen Mode
• Set Host Resolution
• Custom Client Branding
• Image Scaling
• Maintain Aspect Ratio
• USB Auto Forward
• USB VID/PID Auto Forward
• Disable USB
• Locale
• Session Log ID
• Log Level
• Log Folder
• Log Prefix
• Force Native Resolution

Disable Session Menu Bar Visibility

To enhance the user experience the Anyware Session Client enables the menu bar by default, however some use cases may require that it be disabled, or hidden, in order to prevent the user from accessing menu functionality. To disable the menu bar feature use the parameter disable-menubar.

Disable Hot Keys

To improve usability, session hot keys, such as Ctrl+Delete+F12 (which disconnects a PCoIP session) are available to users by default. The parameter for this feature is disable-hotkeys.

Windowed or Fullscreen Mode

Depending on your application needs, you can display the PCoIP session in either windowed or fullscreen mode. Fullscreen mode allows the display topology to support multiple monitors as an extended desktop; windowed mode gives you the flexibility to display multiple application windows in parallel and switch between them quickly. Windowed mode improves the user experience, as well as resulting in an increase in performance. Windowed mode is the default mode, and to activate fullscreen mode use the full-screen parameter.

Set Host Resolution

Normally, the session client opens with arbitrary window dimensions. In some cases, you may wish to lock the resolution of your host application displays. This ensures the user’s viewing experience is consistent across different monitors and their native resolutions. The parameter for this feature is set-host-resolution.

• Host Resolution Limitations: It is only possible to specify one target resolution for all displays. The host resolution will not perform to its optimal capability if you have monitors with different resolutions.

Custom Client Branding

You can customize the branding of your custom session client in several ways by creating a client branding package. These customizations affect the user’s experience once they have connected to their PCoIP session. The parameters for this feature are branding-package and branding-hash. The following elements can be customized in the session client:

• The OS application title and logo
• The session client toolbar title and logo
• The logo displayed in the OS taskbar
• The following default menu item label:
  • About Anyware Client
  • Quit Anyware Client
• The content shown in the About dialog:
  • Replace the dialog text
  • Provide hyperlinks to corporate resources and product information
  • Add a custom logo
• Customize a client alert and message window titles.

Image Scaling

The image scaling feature enables scaling on the client without having to specify the desktop resolution. You can apply image scaling when the resolution of the client monitor is not the same as the resolution provided by the host. This feature provides a smoother process for image scaling on the client. The parameter for this feature is enable-scaling.

Maintain Aspect Ratio

If the host and client aspect ratios do not match, and this parameter is not used then the display will be stretched to fit. The parameter for this feature is maintain-aspect-ratio. If the native aspect ratios of the host’s display and the client’s display do not match, the host’s aspect ratio will be preserved and will appear in the client with black bars either on the sides or top and bottom of the display.

USB Auto-Forward

Automatic bridging enables you to auto bridge all non-HID USB devices. Use the usb-auto-forward parameter.

USB Vendor ID/Product ID Auto-Forward

You can automatically forward up to 20 USB devices to the host at the start of the session by calling the session client executable with vidpid-auto-forward and the required VID/PID pairs. Devices that are auto-forwarded will appear in the USB Devices dialog box, enabling users to connect or disconnect them from the host. The following rules apply to VID and PID values:

• VID/PID values are comma-separated: xxx,yyy
• VID/PID pairs are space-separated: aaa, bbb ccc,ddd
• VID/PID pairs with invalid values will be discarded. Discarded rules appear in the event log.
• Up to 20 devices will be passed; if more than 20 are attempted, the first 20 will be accepted and rest ignored. Ignored rules appear in the event log.

Disable USB

You can disable USB functionality in the client with the disable-usb parameter.

Locale

The Local feature enables you to use the appropriate localized user interface for the client session. This feature will make the session GUI more flexible to accomodate a wide range of languages. You can choose the language translation you require by setting the locale parameter. The following table states the available language translations and codes:

Session Log-ID

log-id is a UUID that uniquely indentifies the session in all PCoIP log files.

Log Level

log-level is the log level parameter. It is possible to over-ride the default log-level, which is 2, by specifying a different log-level parameter. All messages at the specified level or lower will be logged.The following parameters apply:

• 0 = Critical
• 1 = Error
• 2 = Info
• 3 = Debug

Log Folder

log-folder is he Log Folder parameter. This is the user defined folder for log files.

Log Prefix

log-prefix is the Log Prefix parameter. This is the log filename that the SDK will add time information to for each log file. The resulting log file will be [log-folder]/[log-prefix][timeinformation].

Force Native Resolution

The resolution of the client monitor can be set to the native resolution when the session client is launched using the force-native-resolution parameter