[Spice-devel] how can i set display resolution before connecting

[Alon Levy]

> Alon Levy píše v St 27. 02. 2013 v 03:57 -0500:
> > > In fact, I went a API that can send a message to agent in the
> > > guest
> > > and change resolution.
> > 
> > There is no such API. You could make spice-gtk allow listening on a
> > socket and receiving agent messages, or just a dbus protocol. What
> > is your use case?
> 
> How does client tell guest the new resolution after turning full
> screen on/off or after window resize? IMO the same message could be
> reused to pass the resolution from new cli/controller options.

SpiceAgentMonitorsConfig, of course it can be reused - the only question is how, and why. (in reverse order possibly, but patches welcome as usual).

> 
> David
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks agine!
> > > 
> > > 发自我的 iPad
> > > 
> > > 在 2013-2-26，下午10:48，Alon Levy <alevy at redhat.com> 写道：
> > > 
> > > >> changxiaodong píše v St 20. 02. 2013 v 12:32 +0800:
> > > >>> hello:
> > > >>> how can i set the display resolution before connect to a
> > > >>> desktop?
> > > >> 
> > > >> no, that isn't possible. The windowed client will pick up
> > > >> whatever
> > > >> resolution is currently used in the guest, if the client is
> > > >> run
> > > >> from
> > > >> full screen, it will try to resize guest resolution to the
> > > >> client
> > > >> resolution.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not sure what you want:
> > > > 1. specify the guest resolution from the spice client, so that
> > > > when
> > > > connecting the guest will change resolution to that specified?
> > > > Then David is right, there is no method to do that (patches
> > > > welcome :)
> > > > 2. change the guest resolution from the guest before client
> > > > connection, via some other method (i.e. from inside the guest)
> > > > -
> > > > that is possible for linux/windows via the specific OS/window
> > > > system api. For X you can use xrandr utility. You can look at
> > > > the
> > > > agents as examples of code that does that.
> > > > 
> > > >> 
> > > >> David
> > > >> 
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> envirment:
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> virtualization: rhev 3.1
> > > >>> guest os: windows xp sp3
> > > >>> client: spicec 0.10.0
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> thanks!
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> --
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> Chang Xiaodong
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> 
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