Please note, if the hotkey combination you chose is already mapped to a local hotkey, it will continue to perform a local action and not be applied to the Citrix viewer window. Now if you close and re-launch any desktop sessions, you should be able to toggle in and out of full-screen mode using the hotkey! Simply enable the policy, choose the three-key combination of your choice, and click OK.

You can find this policy in the Workspace App ADM template under Computer configuration/administrative templates/Citrix Workspace/User Experience. We will look at both options, starting with the ADM template. To enable this policy, you need to use the Workspace App ADM template OR edit some registry keys on the client machine. If you wanted to use Shift+F2 instead, the desktop toolbar would have to be disabled.īut the desktop toolbar has a ton of really useful features (USB device management, preferences, Ctrl+Alt+Del, etc.), so disabling it to get Shift+F2 back is not always a good option.įortunately, there is a new policy and hotkey for doing exactly this: Hotkeys for Desktop Viewer, shown below. So, by default, the Shift+F2 hotkey has been replaced with these handy buttons to enter full-screen mode (from windowed mode).Īnd to return to Windowed mode when in full-screen mode. With the introduction of Citrix Apps and Desktops 7.X and the Desktop Viewer Toolbar, the full-screen/window options included in the toolbar supersedes the Shift+F2 hotkey. But if you have tried this recently on your Citrix Workspace App connected to a Citrix virtual desktop, you probably found that Shift+F2 didn’t do, well, anything. One one of the more well-known (and well-documented) capabilities is the full-screen toggle: Shift+F2. There have been a set of hotkey capabilities built into our Workspace App for many years. Let’s dive into some of the options you can give your users. The good news: a hotkey like this is easy to configure. Because they’re developers, the mouse mostly collects dust on their desks, and they do most everything via keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys. These users switch between windowed mode and full-screen virtual desktops several times a day. The use case and business value here quickly became clear. They wanted to know, “How can I use a hotkey to exit full-screen mode on my Citrix virtual desktop?” This week someone asked me for help on a Workspace App user experience optimization.

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