[Spice-devel] unsupported partial overlap

[Alon Levy]

> 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).

Want to send a patch? I'm a bit hesitant because I still don't know the original reason, perhaps this is not supported somehow by older X servers? maybe you will get more comments with a patch ;)

> 
> > 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.

That would work for whomever is building spicec from source only. Still it's a good idea.

> 
> -serge
>