[Spice-devel] Available resolutions

[Frédéric Grelot]

Hi, 

Thanks four your fast answer, I'll study that today.
By the way, is there any reason why the resolution should be limited to a fixed set? I think there is some option in VMWare that allow the user to resize the guest's window, and the resolution "just follows" the movement. This must work together with the agent though, since it is responsible for sending the correct resolution to the guest's os as the user resizes the window, but I found it really comfortable when I've had to use it...
Thus, if you have a display running with, say, 1024*768, you could enlarge the guest's window up to 1020*720 (roughly) because of the borders&title/bottom bar , but would still have your full desktop (in particular, the bottom bar with the start button). And if, at this point, you hit shift+F11, the window becomes full screen, and the guest's resolution adapts itself to fit your 1024*768.
I'm not sure about the implications of this feature, but I think it could be interesting to have it.

At least, I'll see qxl_modes and make it fit my small screen!

Thanks again, 

Frederic.

----- Mail original -----
> On 07/08/2010 01:22 AM, Frédéric Grelot wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've set up a spice server (unstable version), and few clients : as
> > you may remember from my previous mails, it works quite well in
> > windows, but still not with fedora (i gave up with this, after
> > trying all the drivers I found on the net...).
> > However, I still have one question : is it possible to change the
> > available resolutions (for the windows driver in particular) ?
> > I've installed the client on an eee-pc (1024x600), and would like to
> > use it to access my spice desktop, but this resolution does not
> > appear in the "display properties" page of the guest.
> > I'm eager to use it, concerning the tests I already performed by
> > opening an "HD" movie on youtube (C) in full screen : locally I
> > get<1 frame/s, but with spice (through wifi and set up as 1024x768)
> > it is really smooth!
> >
> > Thanks again for your help (and, if there is more info about the X11
> > driver, or you need more from my tests, please say so/ask!)
> >
> > Frederic.
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> 
> Hi,
> You can add the resolution to the struct qxl_modes in qxl.c under
> qemu/hw. But, sometimes, tough a resolution is supported, Windows menu
> does not display it. If for this resolution this will be the case, use
> the spice client option --full-screen=auto-conf ==> this will force
> the
> client resolution on the guest (after you add it to the supported
> ones).
> Then, it will also appear on the windows menu.
> 
> We are currently considering the option of Spice automatically
> supporting at least all the resolutions the client support.
> 
> Yonit.