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NAME

6       spice-vdagent - Spice guest agent X11 session agent
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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-vdagent  gets automatically started in desktop environments which
16       honor /etc/xdg/autostart, and under gdm.
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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
30       clipboard
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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
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39       -s port
40              Set  virtio  serial  port  (default:  /dev/virtio-ports/com.red‐
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43       -x     Don't daemonize
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45       -f dir|xdg-desktop|xdg-download
46              Set directory where to save files send from the client, this can
47              be  either an arbitrary dir or one of the special values of xdg-
48              desktop or xdg-download to select the default xdg Desktop  resp.
49              xdg  Download directory. If no value is specified the default is
50              xdg-desktop when running under a Desktop Environment  which  has
51              icons  on the desktop and xdg-download under other Desktop Envi‐
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54       -o 0|1 Disable/enable opening the file  save  directory  with  xdg-open
55              (showing the directory in the file manager) when a file transfer
56              from the client completes. If no value is specified the  default
57              is 0 when running under a Desktop Environment which has icons on
58              the desktop and 1 under other Desktop Environments
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SEE ALSO

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