The Omnissa Access Desktop application includes a command-line application, hws-desktop-ctrl.exe, that you can use to perform operations related to using ThinApp packages on the user's Windows system.
The installation process for the Omnissa Access Desktop application installs hws-desktop-ctrl.exe in the HorizonThinApp folder in the Windows directory location where the Omnissa Access Desktop application is installed.
To use the hws-desktop-ctrl.exe application to perform one of its supported commands, use the following format.
hws-desktop-ctrl.exe command options
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
hws-desktop-ctrl.exe | This command immediately does an entitlement check of the ThinApp packages that are associated with the user account that is logged into the Omnissa Access Desktop application. Any newly entitled or updated ThinApp packages are synced. |
hws-desktop-ctrl.exe |
This command changes the ThinApp deployment mode used for ThinApp packages on this Windows system. Because this command changes the registry keys associated with the ThinApp deployment mode, only administrators with the appropriate registry permissions are able to change the install mode using this command.
Available values for install_mode are:
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hws-desktop-ctrl.exe | This command verifies whether a ThinApp package can be launched. This command does not actually launch the ThinApp package. Provide the ThinApp package's GUID and the path to the package's executable file. If ThinApp download mode is used for the packages on the Windows client system, the path is relative to the local cache root folder, which is the same as the path relative to the repository root. An example is |
hws-desktop-ctrl.exe | This command tells the Omnissa Access Desktop application to exit cleanly. |
hws-desktop-ctrl.exe | This command is used to manually launch a ThinApp package, where package_path is the path to the package's executable file, and launch_url is the Omnissa Access protocol URL for that package, in the form horizon://package_path. An example is |
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