[Spice-devel] Should we auto-redirect USB devices when we show the USB device selection menu?

Uri Lublin uril at redhat.com
Wed Feb 22 01:54:33 PST 2012


On 02/21/2012 12:09 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on some better / prettier error reporting for the usb
> device widget, and I
> was wondering should we auto-redirect newly plugged in USB devices
> when auto-redir
> is enabled and they get plugged on while showing the USB device
> selection menu?
>
> Currently we do not do this since when we show the widget the
> SpiceDisplay widget does
> not have the keyboard focus.
>

I think we should not "fix" this.
auto-share works when the guest is in focus.

As an example, when a menu is in focus keyboard events (key press) are
not passed to the guest.


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