Questions tagged [citrix]

Citrix is a company which develops applications for IT virtualization, targeting Microsoft products. An example is Citrix XenApp.

Citrix is a company selling solutions to virtualize application infrastructure and helping to coordinate central IT requirements. Main areas are application virtualization, software-as-a-service, cloud-computing and networking. There is a huge variety they offer, like well-known Citrix XenApp or Citrix CloudPlatform.

They have a longtime partnership with Microsoft and developed much software to make Microsoft's software available in scalable needs.

The name is often used as a synonym not only for products from this company but as well as for virtualization solutions itself.

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CITRIX and disabled "Copy/Paste"

I must use several Citrix desktops, where "COPY/PASTE" from the local machine to the server is disabled. Are there workarounds or tricks to bypass this limitation?
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Determine if a program is running on a Remote Desktop

Is there a way my program can determine when it's running on a Remote Desktop (Terminal Services)? I'd like to enable an "inactivity timeout" on the program when it's running on a Remote Desktop session. Since users are notorious for leaving Remote…
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Is an SSH tunnel through Citrix Client possible?

I know it is not strictly a programmer question, on the other hand, I would really like to be able to do a simple svn up on the production servers, which would save us a lot of hassle. Or production servers are within a corporate network, and access…
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How to stop keyboard repeat on VirtualBox

I have been using Citrix to remote into a Windows 7 machine that's running Ubuntu in VirtualBox. The issue I ran into was repeated characters all over the place. I tried a few things but the following is what worked for me:
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Keyboard shortcut to toggle OUT of a Citrix Workspace Desktop Viewer session

Background I'm using the Desktop Viewer functionality in Citrix Workspace (version 20.2.0.25(2002)) to access my work computer from my home computer. Request I would like to be able to toggle out of my (full-screen) remote session back to my local…
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SendKeys alternative that works on Citrix

I recently developed a virtual keyboard application for a customer. The program is working fine with almost all programs, but certain commands like {ENTER} or {DEL} are not working with Citrix. Is there are workaround or an alternative to…
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What is the difference between: image/x-citrix-pjpeg and image/pjpeg

Some files are uploaded with a reported MIME type: image/x-citrix-pjpeg They are valid jpeg files and I accept them as such. I was wondering however: why is the MIME type different? Is there any difference in the format? or was this mimetype…
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Passing parameter from Client CMD through ICA file to launch published Citrix App

I'm trying to send a simple string parameter from C# web app code using CMD line call to ICA file to Citrix XenApp Server to launch a specific published application (Macro Scheduler macro compiled into exe), NOT the whole citrix desktop. I have a…
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Get local computer name via Citrix session in .NET

I need to get the local Computer Name for a desktop computer running our software application through a Citrix session. When I query My.Computer.Name I get the name of the server. How can I get the name of the actual physical computer that the…
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Acquiring / accessing Citrix environment for QA purposes

We have a Windows Forms, .NET 2.0 application delivered via ClickOnce and driven by web services, that our customers occasionally wish to deploy into a Citrix environment. In some cases, the customer elects to allow our application to be deployed…
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API for Determining if App is Running on Citrix or Terminal Services

I'm looking for an API/function I can call to determine if software is running on Citrix, Terminal Services, or a stand-alone PC. Optimally, it would work something like this: Select Case APIWhatSystem.Type.ToString Case "Citrix" bCitrix =…
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Programming .NET apps for Citrix/Terminal server: Compliance and Pitfalls

We are a bit lost here. We need to make our app installable on a network with 80+ Citrix servers. Although our app is 100% valid and working .NET, we've experienced some (for us weird) behavior: You cannot use any "Documents and settings" folders…
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GoToWebinar organizer Key

How do you obtain the organizer key used in the GoToWebinar REST API? There does not seem to be any help on the web.
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Java - Desktop.getDesktop().browse(URI) is supported, but does not open document (a citrix problem?)

(I am not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question. Please move to suitable site) I have a problem that is shown in below code. It does not work on machine (windows 2008) that has CITRIX Xen App 6-. There is no error, just that browser…
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Building a Test Citrix Environment

Our customers occasionally ask whether our software would run in a "Citrix environment". Which Citrix products make a typical Citrix environment? How in general does one build a typical Citrix environment for test purposes?
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