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.