Users that have poor eyesight or high-resolution screens, such as 4K monitors, generally have scaling enabled by setting the DPI (Dots Per Inch) on the client system to greater than 100 percent. The DPI setting controls the size of the text, apps and icons. A lower DPI setting makes them appear smaller and a higher setting makes them appear bigger. With the Display Scaling feature, remote desktops and published applications support the client machine's scaling setting and appear normal-sized rather than very small.
Horizon Client saves the display scaling setting for each remote desktop separately. For published applications, the display scaling setting applies to all published applications that are available to the currently logged-in user. The display scaling setting appears, even if the DPI setting is 100 percent on the client system.
You can hide the display scaling setting by enabling the Horizon Client Locked Guest Size group policy setting. Enabling the Locked Guest Size group policy setting does not disable the DPI Synchronization feature. To disable the DPI Synchronization feature, a Horizon administrator must disable the DPI Synchronization group policy setting. For more information, see Using DPI Synchronization.
You can enable or disable display scaling for all remote desktops and published applications by setting the Allow display scaling group policy setting. For information, see General Settings for Client GPOs.
In a multiple-monitor setup, using display scaling does not affect the number of monitors and the maximum resolutions that Horizon Client supports. When display scaling is allowed and is in effect, scaling is based on the DPI setting of the primary monitor.
This procedure describes how to enable the Display Scaling feature before you connect to a remote desktop or published application. You can enable the Display Scaling feature after you connect to a remote desktop by selecting from the Horizon Client menu bar.
