For some reason, the folks at Citrix don't feel that settings should be easily configurable nor should experiences be consistent. If you are remoting into a machine, its my assumption that for the majority of cases, you would want to assume that remote machine as your own, ergo, all the commands you are used to using should be passed through and just work. Alas, this is not the case. Its very jarring when connected to a remote session, especially in full screen view, and you hit a key combination like ALT + TAB and you get thrown back into your host desktop. Since I perform a lot of after hours support through Remote Access to my work, I want to ensure my experience is seamless since I often have dozens of windows open at a time.
The most reliable way to enable ALT+TAB I have found is to edit the wfclient.ini file. This file is available whenever you install the Citrix Receiver client.
It can be found in the following locations:
Windows
%appdata%\ICAClient\WFCLIENT.INI
Linux and OSX
~/.ICAClient/wfclient.ini
In that file you want to find the [WFClient] and add the following to the end of the file.
TransparentKeyPassthrough=Remote
Restart your ICA or Remote Access session and enjoy. This should work whenever the session has focus regardless of if it is full screen or not. If you only want it to pass through when its full screen, then change Remote to FullScreenOnly.
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... what no thankyou's ... thanks for the post :)
Hi there. I hit your post when searching for this problem on my Fedora 25 installation. for others stumbling upon this: This seems to be a problem with current Receiver (Citrix HDX Plugin (Linux) Version 13.4.0.10109380) and Wayland. When running Gnome through X it does work... . Hope this saves somebody time...
Doesn't work for me unfortunately on Ubuntu 14.04
It seems that it doesn't work with Wayland but does with X. Now it only works at the beginning, i.e if I switch to the linux desktop and go back to the citrix session, the alt-tab stopped working (i have to do Meta-Alt-Tab to get it working), any idea what's wrong?
Switching to "Ubuntu on Xorg" did the trick for me. https://askubuntu.com/questions/961304/how-do-you-switch-from-wayland-back-to-xorg-in-ubuntu-17-10
Forward to 2019 and this problem still lingers with the latest version of citrix receiver (ICAClientWeb-rhel-19.3.0.5-0).
On fedora 30 the above solution does not work. Like an anonymous poster mentioned above, you have use meta + alt +tab
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