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Section: User Commands (1)<BR>Updated: April 2013<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
spice-vdagent - Spice guest agent X11 session agent
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>spice-vdagent</B> [<I>OPTIONS</I>]
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
The spice guest agent for Linux consists of 2 parts, a system wide daemon
<B>spice-vdagentd</B> and a X11 session agent <B>spice-vdagent</B> of which
there is one per X11 session.
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<B>spice-vdagent</B> gets automatically started in desktop environments which
honor /etc/xdg/autostart, and under gdm.
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<H2>FEATURES</H2>
The spice guest agent adds the following features to spice Linux guests:
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Client mouse mode (no need to grab mouse by client, no mouse lag)
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Automatic adjustment of the X11 session's number of virtual monitors, and their
resolution, to the number of client windows and their resolution
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Support of copy and paste (text and images) between the active X11 session
and the client, this supports both the primary selection and the clipboard
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Support for transferring files from the client to the agent
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2>
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<DT id="1"><B>-h</B><DD>
Print a short description of all command line options
<DT id="2"><B>-d</B><DD>
Log debug messages
<DT id="3"><B>-s</B> <I>port</I><DD>
Set virtio serial <I>port</I> (default: /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0)
<DT id="4"><B>-x</B><DD>
Don't daemonize
<DT id="5"><B>-f</B> <I>dir|xdg-desktop|xdg-download</I><DD>
Set directory where to save files send from the client, this can be either
an arbitrary <I>dir</I> or one of the special values of <I>xdg-desktop</I> or
<I>xdg-download</I> to select the default xdg Desktop resp. xdg Download
directory. If no value is specified the default is <I>xdg-desktop</I> when
running under a Desktop Environment which has icons on the desktop and
<I>xdg-download</I> under other Desktop Environments
<DT id="6"><B>-o</B> <I>0|1</I><DD>
Disable/enable opening the file save directory with xdg-open (showing the
directory in the file manager) when a file transfer from the client
completes. If no value is specified the default is <I>0</I> when running under
a Desktop Environment which has icons on the desktop and <I>1</I> under other
Desktop Environments
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+spice-vdagentd">spice-vdagentd</A></B>(1)
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<H2>COPYRIGHT</H2>
Copyright 2010-2013 Red Hat, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
&lt;<A HREF="http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html</A>&gt;.
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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<DT id="7"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
<DT id="8"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT id="9"><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DT id="10"><A HREF="#lbAE">FEATURES</A><DD>
<DT id="11"><A HREF="#lbAF">OPTIONS</A><DD>
<DT id="12"><A HREF="#lbAG">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
<DT id="13"><A HREF="#lbAH">COPYRIGHT</A><DD>
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