[Spice-devel] [PATCH] Wait to send monitor config until agent caps are received

[Marc-André Lureau]

----- Original Message -----
> > > To solve the issue, we trigger a display update when the agent becomes
> > > connected, but give it a long timeout (e.g. 5 seconds). This gives some
> > > time
> > 
> > To avoid the timeout, we could rely on the agent caps reply to happen
> > right after sending the client caps->request, no?
> 
> Perhaps I don't understand your suggestion, but this 5-second timeout is
> only to handle the case where the server doesn't actually send an agent
> caps message. In the normal case (where the server sends its
> capabilities), there will be no timeout because we'll trigger a display
> update immediately after receiving the agent caps reply...


Yes, but what if the reply doesn't come after 5s, we will still get the same bugs I suppose.

As you may agree, it's best to avoid timers (some exceptions are those that are user or HI related timers, such as the delay timer for monitor resize)