1 .TH spice-vdagent "1" "April 2013" "@PACKAGE_STRING@"
3 spice-vdagent \- Spice guest agent X11 session agent
5 \fBspice-vdagent\fR [\fIOPTIONS\fR]
7 The spice guest agent for Linux consists of 2 parts, a system wide daemon
8 \fBspice-vdagentd\fR and a X11 session agent \fBspice-vdagent\fR of which
9 there is one per X11 session.
11 \fBspice-vdagent\fR gets automatically started in desktop environments which
12 honor /etc/xdg/autostart, and under gdm.
14 The spice guest agent adds the following features to spice Linux guests:
16 Client mouse mode (no need to grab mouse by client, no mouse lag)
18 Automatic adjustment of the X11 session's number of virtual monitors, and their
19 resolution, to the number of client windows and their resolution
21 Support of copy and paste (text and images) between the active X11 session
22 and the client, this supports both the primary selection and the clipboard
24 Support for transferring files from the client to the agent
28 Print a short description of all command line options
34 Set virtio serial \fIport\fR (default: /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0)
39 \fB-f\fP \fIdir|xdg-desktop|xdg-download\fR
40 Set directory where to save files send from the client, this can be either
41 an arbitrary \fIdir\fR or one of the special values of \fIxdg-desktop\fR or
42 \fIxdg-download\fR to select the default xdg Desktop resp. xdg Download
43 directory. If no value is specified the default is \fIxdg-desktop\fR when
44 running under a Desktop Environment which has icons on the desktop and
45 \fIxdg-download\fR under other Desktop Environments
48 Disable/enable opening the file save directory with xdg-open (showing the
49 directory in the file manager) when a file transfer from the client
50 completes. If no value is specified the default is \fI0\fR when running under
51 a Desktop Environment which has icons on the desktop and \fI1\fR under other
54 \fBspice-vdagentd\fR(1)
56 Copyright 2010-2013 Red Hat, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
57 <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
59 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
60 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.