[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk 1/4] gtk: add spice_main_request_mouse_mode()

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Victor Toso <lists at victortoso.com> wrote:
> Hm.. I would either prefer that mouse mode did not change if it can't
> because the function and its documentation suggested that it will only
> try to change the mouse mode.

I am testing this series again, and trying to understand your issue. I
am still not able to reproduce it though. I can only imagine the guest
is having vmport enabled (check Xorg.log "for VMWare VMMouse"). Spice
expects server mode to be working in general (whereas client mode
depends on having a tablet + agent running). So there is no easy check
to know if the server mode should work, as it should. We could have
qemu tell if vmport is enabled, but that would be a configuration
issue anyway since there would be no way to make server mode work
correctly when vmmouse abs/rel mismatched with what the client/server
selected. You could also have multiple "pointers" attached to the same
input source in qemu, one using absolute and the other relative...

One can conclude that spice is incompatible with vmmouse (since we
don't detect vmmouse configuration mismatch and can easily get stuck
mouse, also vmmouse is redundant with the tablet we use), so I will
send  a patch to qemu to disable it by default when spice is used and
error when enabled.


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Marc-André Lureau