McAfee Endpoint Security for Mac v10.5.0. (they have a Mojave beta version ready. Citrix Receiver is not working for, crashes on start. For more information, refer to Citrix Documentation - Fixed issues in Citrix Receiver for Mac 12. Workaround: Enable Session Reliability; OR Uninstall Receiver for Mac 12.1 and re-install 12.0 (this version does not have the issue). Refer to the download site for further information: 12.1 download page. Citrix Workspace app for Mac provides users with self-service access to resources published on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop servers. Citrix Workspace app for Mac combines ease of deployment and use, and offers quick, secure access to hosted applications and desktops.
After updating a Mac to OS Mojave 10.14 and installing Citrix Workspace, some users with Retina 4k displays can experience an issue with font rendering.
Characters in Design Manager can appear fuzzy or light gray.
The first adjustment is to go to Utilities and open Terminal, and type the following command and hit enter:
defaults write com.citrix.receiver.nomas PreferMetalRendering -bool NO
Launch the DM application again and the fonts should appear more solid.
If the font size still appears too small, making an overall adjustment to the system resolution can increase readability. MacOS Mojave gives some new controls on resolution scaling:
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Displays then click Display.
Change the Resolution setting to Scaled, then adjust the selection to the left for Larger Text. This will make all icons, text and display objects scale to a slightly different resolution on the screen.
You may need to exit Citrix or reboot the system to have the resolution changes fully apply.
The font style should now appear more readable when using DM Cloud.
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One of those things that tells you just how seriously Big Business IT, as a whole, takes the Mac. This is not as much a request for advice as a bellyache and thread to share experiences and updates.
For security reasons, my employer does not want us doing work locally on personal machines. So if I'm not using my work-issued laptop I must connect with work applications via Citrix application hosting. I typically spend several hours a day connected to our hosted applications, so how well they work is a big deal.
Citrix has been replacing its old Receiver client, across all platforms, with a new client called Workspace. Among many other changes, Workspace has a brand-new rendering engine. It uses Metal on Mojave, ostensibly to speed up performance. But since before the public release of Mojave there have been near-universal complaints about Workspace's performance on Mojave, confirmed by my personal experience. Hosted apps are often very slow and the client seems to have trouble transmitting some events to the server. This persisted through client versions 1808 and 1809. There is now a pre-release build of 1811 on the (mostly deserted) Citrix Mac support forum, with a claim that it solves the issues. But, at least in my usage, it is only a little bit better.
The solution is to revert to the previous product, Receiver 12.9.1. It occasionally acts odd around the edges, but performance is about as good as you could hope for applications hosted on a resource-starved VM across the internet. But Receiver is 32-bit only, so won't work with macOS 10.15, and also is not guaranteed to work with future versions of the Citrix application hosting platform.
Only Mac users get to live with/work around disabling performance problems in critical enterprise applications for months at a time, without any evident urgency by the vendor to fix them. Sigh.
For security reasons, my employer does not want us doing work locally on personal machines. So if I'm not using my work-issued laptop I must connect with work applications via Citrix application hosting. I typically spend several hours a day connected to our hosted applications, so how well they work is a big deal.
Citrix has been replacing its old Receiver client, across all platforms, with a new client called Workspace. Among many other changes, Workspace has a brand-new rendering engine. It uses Metal on Mojave, ostensibly to speed up performance. But since before the public release of Mojave there have been near-universal complaints about Workspace's performance on Mojave, confirmed by my personal experience. Hosted apps are often very slow and the client seems to have trouble transmitting some events to the server. This persisted through client versions 1808 and 1809. There is now a pre-release build of 1811 on the (mostly deserted) Citrix Mac support forum, with a claim that it solves the issues. But, at least in my usage, it is only a little bit better.
The solution is to revert to the previous product, Receiver 12.9.1. It occasionally acts odd around the edges, but performance is about as good as you could hope for applications hosted on a resource-starved VM across the internet. But Receiver is 32-bit only, so won't work with macOS 10.15, and also is not guaranteed to work with future versions of the Citrix application hosting platform.
Only Mac users get to live with/work around disabling performance problems in critical enterprise applications for months at a time, without any evident urgency by the vendor to fix them. Sigh.