[Spice-devel] [spice-gtk]Add "monitors config position" capability.

Jonathon Jongsma jjongsma at redhat.com
Wed Sep 16 07:32:05 PDT 2015


I think we usually call that "multi-head".

On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 09:06 -0400, Sandy Stutsman wrote:
> The distinction is between multi-hat where a single instance of the graphics driver handles multiple monitors and, say, the windows driver where there is a separate driver instance for each monitor.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marc-André Lureau" <mlureau at redhat.com>
> > To: "Sandy Stutsman" <sstutsma at redhat.com>
> > Cc: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 6:21:14 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] [spice-gtk]Add "monitors config position" capability.
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > This will allow Windows guests to determine if the client supports a
> > > monitors_config message from a multi-monitor guest that is not
> > > multi-hat.
> > > 
> > 
> > multi-hat?
> > 
> > > It keeps commit:8b0cd321d5a4d08ccba5845c5f2206e6f8032c1d
> > > from breaking if an updated win-qxl driver is paired with an older client.
> > > 
> > > This resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248189
> > > ---
> > > Changed from v1: Removed a local commit that preceded this one.
> > > ---
> > > Changed from v2: Changed name to "monitors config position"
> > > ---
> > >  src/channel-main.c | 2 ++
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/src/channel-main.c b/src/channel-main.c
> > > index 03e407e..2ec6457 100644
> > > --- a/src/channel-main.c
> > > +++ b/src/channel-main.c
> > > @@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ static const char *agent_caps[] = {
> > >      [ VD_AGENT_CAP_GUEST_LINEEND_CRLF  ] = "line-end crlf",
> > >      [ VD_AGENT_CAP_MAX_CLIPBOARD       ] = "max-clipboard",
> > >      [ VD_AGENT_CAP_AUDIO_VOLUME_SYNC   ] = "volume-sync",
> > > +    [ VD_AGENT_CAP_MONITORS_CONFIG_POSITION ] = "monitors config
> > > position",
> > >  };
> > >  #define NAME(_a, _i) ((_i) < SPICE_N_ELEMENTS(_a) ? (_a[(_i)] ?: "?") :
> > >  "?")
> > >  
> > > @@ -1279,6 +1280,7 @@ static void agent_announce_caps(SpiceMainChannel
> > > *channel)
> > >      VD_AGENT_SET_CAPABILITY(caps->caps, VD_AGENT_CAP_DISPLAY_CONFIG);
> > >      VD_AGENT_SET_CAPABILITY(caps->caps, VD_AGENT_CAP_CLIPBOARD_BY_DEMAND);
> > >      VD_AGENT_SET_CAPABILITY(caps->caps, VD_AGENT_CAP_CLIPBOARD_SELECTION);
> > > +    VD_AGENT_SET_CAPABILITY(caps->caps,
> > > VD_AGENT_CAP_MONITORS_CONFIG_POSITION);
> > >  
> > >      agent_msg_queue(channel, VD_AGENT_ANNOUNCE_CAPABILITIES, size, caps);
> > >      g_free(caps);
> > > --
> > > 1.9.5.msysgit.0
> > > 
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