[Spice-devel] dynamic screen sizing

[Andres Heinloo]

On 02/21/2015 04:09 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> On 02/20/2015 05:39 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>> On 02/20/2015 05:34 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> What am I doing wrong?   (I can't wait to get this fixed!)
>>>
>>> That looks correct, what is your client? Can you get SPICE_DEBUG=1
>>> full log when resizing the client window?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry, don't know how.  When I grab the lower corner (or
>> any corner), the entire window moves
>
>
> Are you sure this is the way Spice is suppose to react to having
> one of its corners pulled?  Over on
>
> http://www.spice-space.org/download.html
> It states that
>        "This includes the qxl video driver and the SPICE
>        guest agent (for copy and paste, automatic resolution
>        switching"
>
> And it indeed does automatically switch resolutions from
> boot up (small screen) to full desktop.
>
> Also, in case it matters, this is my run line for Spice:
>
> spicec --host 127.0.0.1 --port 5904 --title "KVM-FC21-x64"

You can try to change screen size with xrandr within VM. This worked 
fine for me up to 1920x1080. My monitor is 2560x1600, though :-(

spicec has spurious keypress bug if the network latency is not low 
enough. Even occurs with localhost sometimes. Better use spicy (spice-gtk).

Cheers,
Andres.