[Spice-devel] can't drag windows after virt-viewer upgrade

Pavel Grunt pgrunt at redhat.com
Fri Jun 23 12:11:16 UTC 2017


On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 13:46 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 
> On 23/06/17 13:33, Pavel Grunt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 12:55 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> > > I recently updated a Debian system, here are the new and old
> > > versions of
> > > each package from dpkg.log
> > > 
> > > upgrade virt-viewer:amd64 1.0-1 5.0-1
> > > upgrade virt-manager:all 1:1.0.1-5 1:1.4.0-5
> > > upgrade spice-client-gtk:amd64 0.25-1+b1 0.33-3.3
> > > upgrade libspice-client-glib-2.0-8:amd64 0.25-1+b1 0.33-3.3
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I connected to an existing session where GNOME 3 is running in a
> > > guest
> > > and I found that I can't drag and drop the windows any more and
> > > I
> > > can't
> > > click the "Activities" control.  Clicking other things on the
> > > top-
> > > bar
> > > (e.g. the clock) behaves normally.
> > 
> > In the guest? What do you mean by 'drag and drop the windows' ?
> > 
> 
> I point at the title bar of a window in the guest, I press the
> mouse button and try to move the window around in the guest desktop.
> 
> I try double clicking a window title bar and the window maximizes
> successfully.
> 
> Other controls for resizing a window (dragging the border) are not
> successful.
> 
> > > 
> > > I am connecting over ssh
> > > 
> > > Is this a known problem?
> > 
> > it is not. Wayland guest or client? (afaik X forwarding does not
> > work
> > in wayland)
> > 
> 
> 
> The guest is Debian jessie with Xorg
> 
> The client system is Debian stretch where the default is Xwayland
> now.
> I just modified /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf to uncomment this line:
> 
> WaylandEnable=false
> 
> and it restarted with Xorg instead of Xwayland but that didn't
> resolve
> the issue.
> 
> The release notes mention a change from evdev to libinput too, could
> that be relevant to the client?

hmmm. Do you have spice-vdagent running in the guest? spicy has an
option to change the mouse mode (Options -> Toggle mouse mode) - does
it change anything?

> 
> I also opened a Debian bug[2]

Does the old version of spice-gtk and virt-viewer work fine? 

Thanks,
Pavel

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 1.
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/i386/release-notes/ch-inform
> ation.en.html#default-xorg-input-driver-libinput
> 2. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865633
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