<html><body><div style="font-family: courier new,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hi,<br></div><div> if I remember I think the main issue is that these buttons are kind of wild west.<br></div><div>Basically what is button 6 (first 5 are well defined) ? It can be anything so it could<br></div><div>be that for instance my client left becomes right on the guest.<br></div><div>Maybe just changing mouse model the semantic of the buttons on the guest change.<br></div><div>Also I remember that GTK had some problems, these buttons are not defined, I think<br></div><div>they are passed from the underlying system (Windows, X11, Wayland).<br></div><div><br></div><div>However I see two "workaround":<br></div><div>1- let the users take care of the mismatch. Either getting used to use a button<br></div><div> instead of the other or using some tools;<br></div><div>2- add a message to communicate the meaning of the various buttons (which can<br></div><div> change for instance changing mouse).<br></div><div><br></div><div>I think 1 is what was implemented by the patches, I'd go for this way.<br></div><div>I hope softwares are not associating button semantics to computer shutdown<br></div><div>or something "dangerous" like this.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Frediano<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:58 PM <<a href="mailto:bruts@netc.fr" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:bruts@netc.fr">bruts@netc.fr</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Hi Victor,</div><div><br></div><div>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%.</div><div>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</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>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</div><div><br></div><div>Kevin<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><br></div><div>It is just a matter of forwarding them to the guest - for some reason it was decided not to add them.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks!<br></div><div><br></div><br><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.5em;border-left:1px solid rgb(0,0,255);padding-left:1em" data-mce-style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; border-left: 1px solid #0000ff; padding-left: 1em;">De : Victor Toso <<a href="mailto:victortoso@redhat.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:victortoso@redhat.com">victortoso@redhat.com</a>><br> À : <a href="mailto:bruts@netc.fr" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:bruts@netc.fr">bruts@netc.fr</a><br> Sujet : Re: [Spice-devel] spice-vdagent: how to enable additional mouse buttons?<br> Date : 12/05/2020 07:25:59 Europe/Paris<br> Copie à : <a href="mailto:uril@redhat.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:uril@redhat.com">uril@redhat.com</a>;<br> <a href="mailto:spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <br> Hi,<br> <br> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:53:02AM +0200, <a href="mailto:bruts@netc.fr" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:bruts@netc.fr">bruts@netc.fr</a> wrote:<br> > <br> > <br> > Uri (and others),<br> > <br> > I found the similar question in a few corners of the internet<br> > and I think adding at least the additional default mouse<br> > buttons should not be all that much work.<br> <br> You can take a look at this proposal to adding horizontal wheel<br> support to Spice<br> <br> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2017-October/040558.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2017-October/040558.html">https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2017-October/040558.html</a><br> <br> > With some guidance I could probably do it myself, though the<br> > guidance would need to be quite substantial :)<br> > <br> > The mouse and the main buttons is already forwarded and that is<br> > the main part.<br> > <br> > with xev it is clear to see which buttons work on the host, but<br> > not on the guest.<br> > <br> > Anyone with some spare time (which I know is always limited for<br> > everyone), but help me where to fix this in the code and i will<br> > write a patch - or give me a good start - or start yourself.<br> > <br> > a semi working mouse in the guest is very annoying and can be<br> > one of the critical points why to use spice (or not) - at least<br> > i know it is in my case.<br> > <br> > Thanks!!<br> <br> Cheers,<br> Victor<br> <br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br> Spice-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel</a><br></blockquote></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Spice-devel mailing list<br>Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org<br>https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></body></html>