Soft keyboard

The soft keyboard feature is available in a Linux virtual desktop or application session. The soft keyboard shows or hides automatically when you enter or leave an input field.

Note:

The feature is available for RHEL 7.9, RHEL 8.4, RHEL 8.6, Rocky Linux 8, SUSE 15.3, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 18.04. It is supported on Citrix Workspace app for iOS and for Android.

Enable and disable the feature

The feature is disabled by default. Use the ctxreg utility to enable or disable the feature. The feature configuration on a given Linux VDA applies to all sessions on that VDA.

To enable the feature:

1. Run the command:

   /opt/Citrix/VDA/bin/ctxreg update -k "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Citrix\VirtualChannels\MrVc"  -v "Enabled" -d "0x00000001"
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