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 daemon 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 resolution

       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

       Support for transferring 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.redhat.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
              Environments

       -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
       <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to  the  extent
       permitted by law.

spice-vdagent 0.22.1                               April 2013                                   spice-vdagent(1)