[Spice-devel] spice-vdagent: how to enable additional mouse buttons?

[Kevin Pouget]

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:58 PM <bruts at netc.fr> wrote:

> Hi Victor,
>
> Yes it was certainly a good read and i got some ideas from it, but the
> code has changed quite a lot since 2017 and the patches correspond to the
> current code only for about 10-15%.
> Maybe someone from the Spice team can suggest a patch to add additional
> mouse buttons - i am sure that it would be a matter of minutes to an hour
> for anyone who is involved with coding the spice-vdagent project to create
> a general patch idea to add additional mouse buttons
>

Hello,

I'll give it a try this morning, indeed it shouldn't require (much|any) new
code, only flags here and there. Let's see

Kevin


> It is just a matter of forwarding them to the guest - for some reason it
> was decided not to add them.
>
> thanks!
>
>
>
> De : Victor Toso <victortoso at redhat.com>
> À : bruts at netc.fr
> Sujet : Re: [Spice-devel] spice-vdagent: how to enable additional mouse
> buttons?
> Date : 12/05/2020 07:25:59 Europe/Paris
> Copie à : uril at redhat.com;
>    spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:53:02AM +0200, bruts at netc.fr wrote:
> >
> >
> > Uri (and others),
> >
> > I found the similar question in a few corners of the internet
> > and I think adding at least the additional default mouse
> > buttons should not be all that much work.
>
> You can take a look at this proposal to adding horizontal wheel
> support to Spice
>
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2017-October/040558.html
>
> > With some guidance I could probably do it myself, though the
> > guidance would need to be quite substantial :)
> >
> > The mouse and the main buttons is already forwarded and that is
> > the main part.
> >
> > with xev it is clear to see which buttons work on the host, but
> > not on the guest.
> >
> > Anyone with some spare time (which I know is always limited for
> > everyone), but help me where to fix this in the code and i will
> > write a patch - or give me a good start - or start yourself.
> >
> > a semi working mouse in the guest is very annoying and can be
> > one of the critical points why to use spice (or not) - at least
> > i know it is in my case.
> >
> > Thanks!!
>
> Cheers,
> Victor
>
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