Re: missing spicec client

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On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Martin Filo
<martin.filo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Spicec has been best spice client. It has nice user interface, no
> annoying toolbar or icons, it has hotkeys for ungrab mouse and
> fullscreen. Everything needed can be configured via command line. And it
> hasn't much dependencies.
> But Spicec has been removed as obsolete in spice 0.12.6. What is a
> replacement for it?
>
> I tried spice-gtk, but for these reasons it's a worse client:
> - My virtualization host has installed minimal needed set of programs. I
> need install gtk libraries only for this one program there (which is a
> small minus for spicy).
> - It has (for me) a useless toolbar which only consumes space on my
> screen. Hotkey for showing/hiding it will be nice.
> - But much worse is that I can't ungrab mouse when I click on its
> window. I tried google for finding hotkey to ungrab mouse but I didn't
> find anything. Only way to ungrab mouse is to halt guest, which makes
> this client absolutely useless.
>
> I tried virt-viewer too
> - It depends on spice-gtk, gtk2, gtk3 and many other libraries
> - It can't run because I am not using libvirt.

Please, try remote-viewer (part of virt-viewer package).

>
> So spicec has been obsolete without replacement. I need simple spice
> client which can connect to address and port specified via command line,
> with hotkeys for ungrab mouse and fullscreen. It would be nice if it
> didn't have too many dependencies similar to spicec.
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
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