Hello Anthony, thanks for your response. After trying various ppa's: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bderzhavets/lib-usbredir86/ubuntu quantal main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bderzhavets/lib-usbredir86/ubuntu quantal main to no avail, I decided to follow you advice, and compile remote-viewer. my compiled version seem to be working a little better, but nonetheless, it's still not working: # /usr/local/spice/bin/remote-viewer --debug spice://192.168.33.1:4442 (remote-viewer:5366): remote-viewer-DEBUG: Insert window 0 0x162d820 (remote-viewer:5366): remote-viewer-DEBUG: fullscreen display 0: 0 (remote-viewer:5366): remote-viewer-DEBUG: fullscreen display 0: 0 (remote-viewer:5366): remote-viewer-DEBUG: Opening display to spice://192.168.33.1:4442 (remote-viewer:5366): remote-viewer-DEBUG: Guest spice://192.168.33.1:4442 has a spice display (remote-viewer:5366): remote-viewer-DEBUG: After open connection callback fd=-1 (remote-viewer:5366): remote-viewer-DEBUG: Opening connection to display at spice://192.168.33.1:4442 (remote-viewer:5366): remote-viewer-DEBUG: New spice channel 0x16a4b10 SpiceMainChannel 0 (remote-viewer:5366): remote-viewer-DEBUG: Checking full screen auto-conf (remote-viewer:5366): remote-viewer-DEBUG: notebook show status 0x162f000 Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fonts.conf", line 103: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not works as expected Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-droid-sans-fonts.conf", line 138: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not works as expected Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-language-selector-ja-jp.conf", line 141: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not works as expected Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-language-selector-zh-tw.conf", line 79: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not works as expected Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-fonts-nanum.conf", line 9: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not works as expected Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-fonts-nanum.conf", line 22: Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not works as expected Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-fonts-nanum.conf", line 22: Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not works as expected Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-fonts-nanum.conf", line 22: Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not works as expected Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-fonts-nanum.conf", line 26: Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not works as expected Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-fonts-nanum.conf", line 31: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not works as expected Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-fonts-nanum.conf", line 40: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not works as expected Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-fonts-unfonts-core.conf", line 11: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not works as expected (remote-viewer:5366): GSpice-CRITICAL **: invalid SPICE_MAGIC! (remote-viewer:5366): remote-viewer-DEBUG: notebook show status 0x162f000 (remote-viewer:5366): remote-viewer-DEBUG: Guest spice://192.168.33.1:4442 display has disconnected, shutting down (remote-viewer:5366): remote-viewer-DEBUG: Disposing window 0x162d820 Any ideas? thanks for your time and help Regards, TF 2012/8/27 Anthony James <anthony.james@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Trebor, > > I did some testing and was able to successfully compile > virt-viewer-0.5.3 with usb-redirection on a fresh install of Ubuntu > 12.04 32-bit. Below are the steps that I used. Note: I chose to > install the SPICE stuff to /usr/local/spice > > A) Install dependencies > > sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0.0-0-dev intltool libpixman-1-dev > libogg-dev libssl-dev libsasl2-dev libgtk-3-dev > libpulse-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev libnss3-dev libgudev-1.0-dev libxml2-dev > > B) Set PKG_CONFIG_PATH > > export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/spice/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/spice/share/pkgconfig > > C) Install sources > > 1) spice-protocol-0.10.1 > - configure --prefix=/usr/local/spice > - make > - sudo make install > 2) usbredir-0.4.3 > - configure --prefix=/usr/local/spice > - make > - sudo make install > 3) celt-0.5.1.3 > - configure --prefix=/usr/local/spice > - make > - sudo make install > 4) libcacard-0.1.2 > - configure --prefix=/usr/local/spice > - make > - sudo make install > 5) spice-gtk-0.11 > - configure --prefix=/usr/local/spice > - make > - sudo make install > 6) virt-viewer-0.5.3 > - configure --with-gtk=3.0 > - make > - sudo make install > > Hope this helps. > > Anthony > > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hey, >> >> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 03:13:51PM +0200, Trebor Forban wrote: >>> wanting to be able to use the integrated spice USB-redirection seems >>> to incur having to use the spicy client instead of the spicec client. >>> With the spicec client, I was able to automatically position client >>> windows with devilspie/xdotool, use xscreensaver and various other X11 >>> stuff. >>> This no longer seems to be possible with spicy. I now have a >>> gui-client, but much impoverished usability. >> >>> Can somebody possibly give me a tip, as to how I can use >>> USB-redirection and still have a usable client? >> >> spicy is not recommended to be used as a client, it's just a testbed for >> the spice-gtk widget. Using remote-viewer (shipped with recent virt-viewer >> versions) is the recommended client. >> >> Hope that helps, >> >> Christophe >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Spice-devel mailing list >> Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel >> _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel