[Spice-devel] unsupported partial overlap

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Alon Levy (alevy at redhat.com):
> > 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?

Yup, that works perfectly.  (just removing the 3 lines which test and
throw the exception).

> Note that this is low priority for us, since we prefer everyone switch
> to the supported viewer, remote-viewer, based off spice-gtk.

Thanks, that is also good to know.  Perhaps we should add a deprecation
message to spicec.

-serge