User Experience Settings

The user experience settings for an RDC access profile can be found in the following tabs:

Display Tab

Option	Description
Color Depth	Choose the color depth for the remote computer view. If Remote FX is enabled, the color depth will be set to 32bit regardless of what is stated in this field. For details, see Remote FX.
Resolution	Choose from the available list of resolutions including Fit to browser window and Fit to screen, ideal for hiding the browser and working on a full screen mode.
Image Quality	The connection image quality is related to the application performance (higher quality performance). The default Image quality is Optimum, it presents the best cost-benefit relationship between quality and performance. Take a look at the options below for more quality or better performance: Highest - Uses PNG images only (0% compression). Optimum - Combines PNG and JPEG images (20% compression). Good - Uses JPEG images only (40% compression). Fastest - Uses JPEG images only (50% compression).

Resources Tab

Option	Description
Enable Clipboard	Check this option to enable the clipboard on the remote connection.
Enable Clipboard File transfer	This feature allows users to transfer files between the client and server by copying and pasting files via the clipboard. This provides a convenient method for moving files between devices without the need to upload and download them manually.
Enable Intermediate Disk	Activate this option to have an intermediate disk available on the connections created through this profile.
Disk name	Name to identify the intermediate disk among the other remote desktop disks.
Automatically download any newly-added file	This option is selected by default and it allows Thinfinity® Workspace to automatically download any file saved or copied in the Intermediate disk direction. Files with the format *.tmp y ~$*.* are excluded by default. To exclude different files from this download, configure the .ini file. (*) For details, see the instructions below.
Enable Sound	Check this option to enable the remote sound to be reproduced within the browser (only for Firefox and Chrome browsers).
Sound quality	Determines the quality that Thinfinity Workspace uses to reproduce the remote sound. Higher quality will require more resources.

(*) The settings.ini configuration file can be found on this path:

C:\ProgramData\Cybele Software\Thinfinity\Workspace\DB\settings.ini

In the .ini file, create an [AutoDownload] section and use the Exclusion key with the values that you want to exclude using Glob Expression Syntax (standard DOS mode), separated by the "|" char. You can also use the regular expression notation to indicate which files to exclude, except for the single pipe character, which is reserved for Thinfinity Workspace to indicate separation between exclusion rules. Use the double pipe character, instead, within the regex for the "or" operator.

Here is an example of an [AutoDownload] section and the correct use of characters. Notice the use of ":" at the beginning of the .jpg exclusion rule and the double pipe to indicate that files starting with the letter "a" or the letter "b" will be excluded.

[AutoDownload]
Exclusion=*.tmp|~$*.*|:^.*\.jpg$|^[a||b].*$

Experience Tab

Option	Description
Smart Sizing	Scale the connection image. The maximum size of the connection will be the original desktop size.
RemoteFX	Enable RemoteFX. Read More about Remote FX. This option affects other settings.
Desktop Background	Show the desktop background.
Visual Styles	Show Windows Visual Styles: the appearance of common controls, colors, borders, and themes.
Menu and Windows Animation	Show menu and windows animation when you scroll or expand a drop down menu.
Font Smoothing	Allow "Clear Type", a font smoothing option added to Windows Server 2008.
Show Window Content While Dragging	Show the contents of the window while being dragged. Otherwise a transparent border is dragged.
Desktop Composition	Configure the DWM to redirected the desktop drawing to off-screen surfaces in video memory. Also, the desktop will present many visual effects.

All of these options that enhance the remote desktop view require additional bandwidth, which may negatively impact performance depending on your connection.

Advanced Tab

Option	Description
Unicode Keyboard	Uncheck this option to connect to Unix computers through xRDP.
Keyboard Layout	Choose the keyboard layout for the remote computer.
Connect to console session	Check this option to connect to the console session. This requires confirmation from the logged on user and logging out the current session.
Disable NLA login	Check this to skip NLA as the default login and have the authentication done by an alternative method.
WebSocket compression	Check this option to enable the compression for the exchanged WebSocket data and have the application performance improved. It only works in browsers which have the WebSockets compression implemented and enabled.
Record Remote Desktop Session	Enables the recording of the remote session when connecting to this profile. For details, see Session Recording.
Drag to relative mouse movement	The relative mouse movement is a mouse behavior encountered in touch screen mobile devices, in which the screen cursor moves relatively to the touch when dragging. Uncheck this option to have a mouse behavior similar to the real desktop mouse in which the cursor will be always positioned under the touch.
Touch to hold delay	Specify time in milliseconds that you need to hold a touch until you can drag.
Minimum drag distance	Specify maximum distance in pixels that you can move the finger and have it considered a touch instead of a drag movement.

Desktop Client Tab

Option	Description
Connection/Use Gateway	Allows the desktop client to act as an intermediary that routes the RDP connections of users to the internal servers of an enterprise network allowing them through a HTTPS port giving secure access without exposing internal servers directly to the Internet. Use a Gateway if you want to provide remote access to internal resources in a secure and controlled manner, especially when users connect from outside the network.
Connection/Remote Credential Guard	Protects user credentials on RDP connections. Instead of sending credentials directly to the remote server, Credential Guard keeps them on the local computer and uses a token-based authentication process. Use Remote Credential Guard when the focus is on protecting user credentials during the RDP session, especially in environments where credential security is critical.
Redirect	Use the Redirect checkboxes to give permissions/ allow the use of the resources (Disks, Cameras, COM ports, USB Devices, Smart cards, WebAuthn, POS Devices, Microphone and Location) and redirect them to the remote machine.

Printer Tab

For details on the options available in the RBAC tabs, see Access Control Settings.