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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 transferring 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       -f     Treat  uinput device as fake; no ioctls.  This is useful in com‐
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42       -o     The daemon will exit after processing a single session.
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44       -s port
45              Set  virtio  serial  port  (default:  /dev/virtio-ports/com.red‐
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48       -u device
49              Set uinput device (default: /dev/uinput)
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51       -x     Don't daemonize
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53       -X     Disable  session  info usage, spice-vdagentd needs to know which
54              spice-vdagent is in the currently active  X11  session.   spice-
55              vdagentd  uses  console  kit  or  systemd-logind  (compile  time
56              option) for this; The -X option disables  this,  if  no  session
57              info is available only one spice-vdagent is allowed
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FILES

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

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