Using SGD From Your Desktop Start or Launch Menu

You can use SGD from your desktop Start or Launch Menu. This is called Integrated mode. When you use SGD in Integrated mode, the links for starting applications display in your desktop Start or Launch Menu, instead of on your webtop. This means you can run applications through SGD in the same way as applications installed on your computer.

How to Add SGD to Your Desktop Start or Launch Menu

To add SGD to your desktop Start or Launch Menu, you usually have to perform an initial login to display a webtop, and then edit your profile.

1. Start a browser and go to the SGD login URL.

   The SGD login URL is at http://server.example.com/sgd, where server.example.com is the name of the SGD server.

2. Log in and display a webtop.

3. Edit your profile as follows.

   1. Click the Edit button in the Applications area of the webtop, and then click the Client Settings tab.

   2. Select the Add Applications to Start Menu check box.

   3. To start the SGD Client when you log in to your desktop, select the Connect on System Login check box.

   4. (Optional)

      If you want the SGD Client to log you in automatically to SGD when it starts, select the Automatic Client Login check box.

      Your SGD Administrator can tell you whether you can use automatic logins.

   5. (Optional)

      Configure the proxy server settings.

      Your SGD Administrator can tell you what proxy server settings to use.

   6. Click Save.

4. Log out of SGD.

Working With the Start or Launch Menu

This section describes the how you do the following tasks using the desktop Start or Launch Menu.

• Logging in

• Running applications

• Printing

• Displaying a webtop

• Using application groups

Logging In

You log in to SGD by clicking the Login link on your desktop Start or Launch Menu. See Logging In Using the Desktop Start or Launch Menu.

Logging In Using the Desktop Start or Launch Menu

Once you have logged in to SGD, the Start or Launch Menu is updated with the links for the applications you can run through SGD, as shown in Webtop Content Links in the Desktop Start or Launch Menu.

To use SGD in Integrated mode, you always log in using the Start or Launch Menu. If you start a browser and log in, your applications are not displayed in the Start or Launch Menu.

Webtop Content Links in the Desktop Start or Launch Menu

Displaying a Webtop

If you need to display a webtop, for example to be able to edit your profile, resume a suspended application or manage printing, you click the Webtop link in the Start or Launch Menu. The webtop is displayed in your default browser.

Running Applications

To start an application, you click its link on the Start or Launch Menu. To start another instance of the application, you click the link again.

Unlike the webtop, you cannot suspend and resume individual applications. Instead, when you log out of SGD, your running applications are either suspended or ended, depending on their resumability settings. See Suspending and Resuming Applications. When you log in again, any suspended applications you have are resumed automatically.

See Using Applications for more information about running applications using SGD.

Printing

You cannot manage individual print jobs from the Start or Launch Menu and so print jobs go straight to the selected printer.

See Printing for more information about printing using SGD.

Using Application Groups

If you have arranged any of your webtop content to display in groups, those groups are also used in the Start or Launch Menu. If the group is configured to hide webtop content, the content does not display in the Start or Launch Menu.