[Spice-devel] unsupported partial overlap

[Alon Levy]

> Hi,
> 
> it has been reported
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice/+bug/1212704)
> that in a multi-monitor setup with partial overlap, spicy runs fine but
> spicec refused to run.  This is explicitly checked for in
> client/x11/platform.cpp:crtc_overlap_test().
> 
> I've looked at the git tree for the origins, but it's been there since
> the first commit ("fresh start").  Is this something that's really
> needed i.e. due to the way spicec does rendering?
>

I am not sure. Have you tried removing crtc_overlap_test and testing? Note that this is low priority for us, since we prefer everyone switch to the supported viewer, remote-viewer, based off spice-gtk.
 
> thanks,
> -serge
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