[Spice-devel] spice-vdagent screen resolution auto-adjustment fail

[Victor Toso]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 06:50:27PM +0400, Dmitriy Kormulev wrote:
> Hi, 
> Just wonder if there any possible changes to make in
> spice-vdagent(d) source code ( I am using spice-vdagent 0.14.0
> ) to make client's screen auto-resizable. I tried but failed.
>
> Would be extremely grateful for any clue. 
> 
> The screen resolution is adjusted only once during  - for the
> first time WM starts, the resolution is not adjusted during the
> session ( does not follow changes in spice-client window size
> ).
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. connect to a freshly started guest
> 2. guest adjust resolution while on login screen
> 3. log in
> 
> Expected result:
> resolution matches window size
> 
> I am using Mate 1.16 and Centos 7 on VM and Kubuntu 17.10 as a host.

Are you using qxl? Depending on your guest configuration, the
agent might not play a role in adjusting the resolution anymore.

For more details, you can check the implementation notes at
https://www.spice-space.org/multiple-monitors.html

Cheers,
        toso
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