spice-vdagent(1) General Commands Manual spice-vdagent(1)

NAME
       spice-vdagent - Spice guest agent X11 session agent

SYNOPSIS
       spice-vdagent [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION
       The spice guest agent for Linux consists of 2 parts, a system wide dae‐
       mon spice-vdagentd and a X11 session agent spice-vdagent of which there
       is one per X11 session.
       spice-vdagent  gets automatically started in desktop environments which
       honor /etc/xdg/autostart, and under gdm.

FEATURES
       The spice guest agent  adds  the  following  features  to  spice  Linux
       guests:

       Client mouse mode (no need to grab mouse by client, no mouse lag)

       Automatic  adjustment  of the X11 session's number of virtual monitors,
       and their resolution, to the number of client windows and their resolu‐
       tion

       Support of copy and paste (text and images) between the active X11 ses‐
       sion and the client, this supports both the primary selection  and  the
       clipboard

       Support for transfering files from the client to the agent

OPTIONS
       -h     Print a short description of all command line options

       -d     Log debug messages

       -s port
              Set  virtio  serial  port  (default:  /dev/virtio-ports/com.red‐
              hat.spice.0)

       -x     Don't daemonize

       -f dir|xdg-desktop|xdg-download
              Set directory where to save files send from the client, this can
              be  either an arbitrary dir or one of the special values of xdg-
              desktop or xdg-download to select the default xdg Desktop  resp.
              xdg  Download directory. If no value is specified the default is
              xdg-desktop when running under a Desktop Environment  which  has
              icons  on the desktop and xdg-download under other Desktop Envi‐
              ronments

       -o 0|1 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 0 when running under a Desktop Environment which has icons on
              the desktop and 1 under other Desktop Environments

SEE ALSO
       spice-vdagentd(1)

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2010-2013 Red Hat, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3  or
       later .
       This  is  free  software:  you  are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.



spice-vdagent 0.14.0              April 2013                  spice-vdagent(1)