ICA Global Settings
Citrix® Independent Computing Architecture (ICA)® allows users to connect rem otely to servers
running Citrix MetaFrame. ICA Client offers quick, secure access to applications, con tent, and
entire desktops published on servers running MetaFrame. ICA separates the user interface fro m
the application while keeping the logic on the server. By doing this, only sc reen updates, mouse
clicks and keystrokes traverse the connection media.
This "ICA Global Settings" section describes how to co nfigure the "Global ICA Settings" that will
be valid for all ICA sessions.
These are the default values for all ICA sessions. Most of these properties (espec ially color
depth, resolution and server IP or name) can be altered for each session separately.
Preferences
The options are self explanatory.
Window
Default Number of Colors
You are allowed to set the default number of window colors to 256 (default), thousands (High
Color) or millions (True Color). The color depth your sessions can run in also depends o n your
Metaframe server.
Resolution
Set the default window size by choosing the resolution from the given list. You can also select
the screen size based on percentage of total screen size or Full screen.
Server Location
Server Location
The "Server Location" (also called server browsing) provides a method for a network-
connected
Citrix ICA Client to view a list of all Citrix servers and Published Applicatio ns that are