You can use many Mac functions with published applications.

When you run a published application, its icon appears in the Dock. You can maximize a minimized published application by clicking its icon in the Dock.

You can keep, open, and quit a published application from its context menu in the Dock. If you select Keep in Dock, the published application icon remains in the Dock, even after you close all application windows.

You can open a published application by clicking its icon in the Dock.

You can open local files in published applications and run published applications from the Applications folder on the client system. To enable these features, see Share Access to Local Folders and Drives with Client Drive Redirection.

Flashing Windows taskbar items are forwarded to Horizon Client. For example, if the published application is an IM client and you receive a new message, a flashing red dot appears on the IM client icon in the Dock.

You can start voice dictation, minimize, and zoom a published application from the menu bar.

You can use the Exposé feature to see open published applications, and you can press Command-Tab to switch between open published applications.

You can use standard Mac keyboard shortcuts to interact with published applications. For example, you can press Command-W to close an individual application window and Command-S to save the current file. You can also use standard Mac keyboard shortcuts to copy, cut, and paste text between applications on the Mac and published applications. You can customize keyboard shortcut mappings. See Create Keyboard Shortcut Mappings.

If a published application creates a Windows System Tray item, that item appears in the notification area on the menu bar on the Mac client system. You can interact with this item from the notification area on the Mac in the same way that you interact with it from the System Tray on a Windows system.

Note

When you reclick a redirected System Tray item in the notification area on the Mac, the context menu does not disappear.

With certain published applications, such as Microsoft Word or WordPad, you can create and save documents. Where these documents are saved depends on your company's network environment. For example, your documents might be saved to a home share mounted on your local computer.

If you use non-English keyboards and locales, you can use an IME (input method editor) that is installed in the local client system to send non-English characters to a published application.

If you disconnect from a server without closing a published application, Horizon Client prompts you to reopen that published application the next time you connect to the server. You can change this behavior by modifying the Reconnect Behavior setting in Horizon Client.

When multi-session mode is enabled for a published application, you can use multiple sessions of the same published application when you log on to the server from different client devices.

You can configure Horizon Client so that published applications appear in the Applications folder on the client system.