[Spice-devel] [PATCH] Adding new ioctl for updating Vdagent state

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 05:01:34PM +0300, Dmitry Fleytman wrote:
> 
> > On 9 Aug 2016, at 16:05 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 09:22:15AM +0300, Sameeh Jubran wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> What do you think that needs to be done?
> >> The patches should be applied?
> >> The interface of the device should be extended to support broadcasting the
> >> mouse mode to the driver? ( I think would require to modify the spice
> >> protocol )
> >> The interface of spice-gtk should be extended to support broadcasting the
> >> mouse mode to vdagent?
> > 
> > NB: if (emphasis on "if") you really need to differentiate between
> > client and mouse mode within the QXL driver, I'd add this to QXLRom
> > and have spice-server indicate what is the current mouse mode through
> > that as it knows which mode it's in.
> 
> Thanks for the clue. We will investigate this possibility.

As far as I'm concerned, this really is a "last resort" option. I'd much
prefer that the driver just does the same thing as the other drivers and
don't care at all about server VS client mouse mode.

Christophe
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