Disable close button X in the session window

[Ronald Rambo]

Is there a command line switch or some other way to disable the Close button (X) in the upper righthand corner of the session window with the Win32 Client ver 6.3 program neighborhood. I only want the users to terminate the session through the logout option of the start button of the window.

Ron

[Thomas Kötzing]

Welcome to the forum,

This is a killer little app that lets you turn off the X in the top right hand corner of an application. This forces your users to log out of application and desktops and helps prevent against disconnected sessions.
http://www.dabcc.com/ThinSol/Downloads/Files/AppScapeUtility.exe

[Ronald Rambo]

I tried it and it dosen't work on the pn.exe client. The shortcut runs the command pn.exe /APP "connection name".

Ron

[Administrator]

Is there any documentation for the AppScapeUtility?

[Stefan Vermeulen]

> Is there any documentation for the AppScapeUtility?

Not really, the company who created it no longer exists.
Read this: http://www.freelists.org/archives/thin/10-2003/msg00459.html

[Clint Morissette]

That Control Panel applet worked like a charm. Any ideas on how to disable the "minimize" button. Some people are "accidentally" using that and getting confused at times.

[Administrator]

Any Progress on this issue?
The above proposed is client based, is there any other solution to be applied to server affecting all connected.

[George Martin]

I don't want to toot my own horn.. but, I am the coolest geek in the Midwest. I just found this post about Appscape utility program and also had the same issue as the rest of you with the PN.exe.... Some of you may notice the newer ICA clients point to PN.exe not the wfica32.exe. Anyway!!

Open this file with NOTEPAD:
C:\WINDOWS\inf\xclose.adm
Yes after installing the Appscape utility.

Change the "TWO" entries for WFICA32.EXE to pn.exe. Re-enable the control panel applet.. That is it, done!

Now, for the record...! This is the kind of info people are looking for on these posts. Please post with "HELPFUL" information. I'm sorry for being a ****.. I just find it a little annoying when I have to search through 100 posts to find 1 helpful post.

[George Martin]

OH, and one last post.

The issue is client based. You need a client based solution to solve it. Citrix could make the change to the next ICA client by not allowing the X or by giving us the option.

[Ryan Chaney]

This "X" situation is driving me crazy. I cannot believe that I need to install a seperate application on the citrix server to disable the "X" from the published desktop.
Citrix should put something in the CMC when setting up a deployable desktop or app that allows the admin to disable the "X".

Just great I have to go intstall more "stuff" that is going to overly customize my farm. More admin work for me!!!!!! YIPPY!!!!!!!!

Way to go Citrix!

Regards,
Concerned Citrix Systems Engineer

Their has to be an INI file or something that each published app creates on the server that you can go in and modify to change this ridiculous oversight.

[Peter Dickason1709151723]

That would be nice. I'm with you. Give us control over the X!

[Mike Spohn]

I am sorry to resurrect an old thread! This is the only thread I found on this subject.

Has Citrix implemented a better solution yet for disabling the close button? We are using web client 11.0 with PS4.5.
Any help greatly appreciated.

[Michael Halvatzis1709152209]

This would still be handy today in some scenarios if you could disable/hide this from the server side or at least change the function from disconnect to log off or other...

[John Hall1709157473]

Anything new on this topic? Looking for a way to disable the "X"....

[Mike Liss1709161105]

I have written an application that does prevents users from clicking the X...

Anybody interested?

[Mike Liss1709161105]

On 10/20/2016 at 11:48 AM, John Hall1709157473 said:

Anything new on this topic? Looking for a way to disable the "X"....

I have an app that prevents users from clicking the "X"

[Mike Liss1709161105]

On 7/16/2009 at 6:26 AM, Mike Spohn said:

I am sorry to resurrect an old thread! This is the only thread I found on this subject.

Has Citrix implemented a better solution yet for disabling the close button? We are using web client 11.0 with PS4.5.
Any help greatly appreciated.

Does the application I wrote look like it might work for you?

[Mike Liss1709161105]

On 1/10/2004 at 1:20 PM, Ronald Rambo said:

Is there a command line switch or some other way to disable the Close button (X) in the upper righthand corner of the session window with the Win32 Client ver 6.3 program neighborhood. I only want the users to terminate the session through the logout option of the start button of the window.

Ron

Ron,

 

I have an application that might work for you:

 

[Mike Liss1709161105]

On 4/12/2007 at 5:44 AM, Peter Dickason1709151723 said:

That would be nice. I'm with you. Give us control over the X!

check out my app at the end of this post