Hi Bastien, I'm working on a bug/enhancement for Spice reported by Zeeshan: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62033 (Means to detect local-only). It is related to Gnome bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680195 (Disable animations when on slow VNC or spice) We've discussed possible solutions for this issue in the spice-devel mailing list (the last message in the thread - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2013-September/014562.html). Summary of the issue: Need to disable desktop effects (animation, wallpaper, font smoothing) when user is connected via Spice over slow network. Proposed solution: (i) Use existing "--spice-disable-effects" option which works for Windows guests already: implement such functionality for Linux guests. The feature can be invoked from oVirt, so it will be useful. (ii) Implement the feature via inhibitors: Spice vdagent to call DE-provided inhibitor-styled D-Bus API to inhibit animation, wallpaper and font smoothing. This way the feature will be supported at any DE which provides such API - hopefully we can get support for Gnome3, KDE (5?) and Unity (minimum list). Does the solution seem reasonable for you? Any comments would be appreciated. I have few additional questions: 1. I know you have been involved into Inhibitor API discussions with KDE folks about a year ago (I've seen only http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2012-November/012580.html thread). Could you please summarize the current status of this API in Gnome and maybe KDE (including all inhibitors, not only screen saver)? I cannot find any relevant documentation about this... 2. What do you think about adding new inhibitors for our needs? Where should I start from? Is the implementation need to be added to gnome-desktop-settings? -- Best regards, Fedor _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel