[Spice-devel] missing spicec client

[Martin Filo]

Hello,

Dňa 23.11.2015 o 17:46 David Jaša napísal(a):
> Zdravím,
>
> On Po, 2015-11-23 at 15:15 +0100, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Martin Filo
>> <martin.filo at bublifuk.no-ip.org> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Spicec has been best spice client. It has nice user interface, no
>>> annoying toolbar or icons, it has hotkeys for ungrab mouse and
>>> fullscreen. Everything needed can be configured via command line. And it
>>> hasn't much dependencies.
>>> But Spicec has been removed as obsolete in spice 0.12.6. What is a
>>> replacement for it?
>>>
>>> I tried spice-gtk, but for these reasons it's a worse client:
>>> - My virtualization host has installed minimal needed set of programs. I
>>> need install gtk libraries only for this one program there (which is a
>>> small minus for spicy).
>>> - It has (for me) a useless toolbar which only consumes space on my
>>> screen. Hotkey for showing/hiding it will be nice.
>>> - But much worse is that I can't ungrab mouse when I click on its
>>> window. I tried google for finding hotkey to ungrab mouse but I didn't
>>> find anything. Only way to ungrab mouse is to halt guest, which makes
>>> this client absolutely useless.
>>>
>>> I tried virt-viewer too
>>> - It depends on spice-gtk, gtk2, gtk3 and many other libraries
>>> - It can't run because I am not using libvirt.
>> Please, try remote-viewer (part of virt-viewer package).
>>
>>> So spicec has been obsolete without replacement. I need simple spice
>>> client which can connect to address and port specified via command line,
> remote-viewer spice://host:port/
Thanks, remote-viewer works fine.
>
>>> with hotkeys for ungrab mouse and fullscreen. 
> ctrl+alt and F11 (when you have focus out of canvas). You can get
> shift-F1[12] as you're used to if you launch the client using .vv file
> (hm, it would make sense to mirror the .vv file configuration options in
> --spice-* CLI options 1:1 ...)
>
>> It would be nice if it
>>> didn't have too many dependencies similar to spicec.
> I you're fine building yourself, you should be able to get remote-viewer
> without libvirt dependencies. You won't be able to get rid of gtk
> dependencies however, achieving that would mean writing a new client on
> top of spice-glib (which did Iordan Iordanov in hist aSpice Android
> client) or just spice-protocol (which some KDE people tried to to create
> qtspice library but left project after short time).
>
> David
I will build remote-viewer for now. When I will have some time, then I
will try build my own minimalistic client. Thanks for suggestions to
other clients.

Martin
>>> Thanks,
>>> Martin
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