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NAME

6       spice-vdagentd - Spice guest agent daemon
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SYNOPSIS

9       spice-vdagent [OPTIONS]
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DESCRIPTION

12       The spice guest agent for Linux consists of 2 parts, a system wide dae‐
13       mon spice-vdagentd and a X11 session agent spice-vdagent of which there
14       is one per X11 session.
15       spice-vdagentd  gets  started  through  a Sys-V initscript or a systemd
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FEATURES

19       The spice guest agent  adds  the  following  features  to  spice  Linux
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22       Client mouse mode (no need to grab mouse by client, no mouse lag)
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24       Automatic  adjustment  of the X11 session's number of virtual monitors,
25       and their resolution, to the number of client windows and their resolu‐
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28       Support of copy and paste (text and images) between the active X11 ses‐
29       sion and the client, this supports both the primary selection  and  the
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32       Support for transfering files from the client to the agent
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OPTIONS

35       -h     Print a short description of all command line options
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37       -d     Log debug messages (use twice for extra info)
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39       -s port
40              Set  virtio  serial  port  (default:  /dev/virtio-ports/com.red‐
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43       -u device
44              Set uinput device (default: /dev/uinput)
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46       -x     Don't daemonize
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48       -X     Disable session info usage, spice-vdagentd needs to  know  which
49              spice-vdagent  is  in  the currently active X11 session.  spice-
50              vdagentd  uses  console  kit  or  systemd-logind  (compile  time
51              option)  for  this;  The  -X option disables this, if no session
52              info is available only one spice-vdagent is allowed
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FILES

55       The Sys-V initscript or systemd unit parses the following files:
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57       /etc/sysconfig/spice-vdagentd
58              Default cmdline options can be passed to spice-vdagentd by  set‐
59              ting them in the SPICE_VDAGENTD_EXTRA_ARGS variable in this file
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SEE ALSO

62       spice-vdagent(1)
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65       Copyright  2010-2013 Red Hat, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or
66       later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
67       This is free software: you are free  to  change  and  redistribute  it.
68       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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