Re: spice-vdagent: how to enable additional mouse buttons?

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On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:58 PM <bruts@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Victor,

Yes it was certainly a good read and i got some ideas from it, but the code has changed quite a lot since 2017 and the patches correspond to the current code only for about 10-15%.
Maybe someone from the Spice team can suggest a patch to add additional mouse buttons - i am sure that it would be a matter of minutes to an hour for anyone who is involved with coding the spice-vdagent project to create a general patch idea to add additional mouse buttons

Hello,

I'll give it a try this morning, indeed it shouldn't require (much|any) new code, only flags here and there. Let's see

Kevin
 
It is just a matter of forwarding them to the guest - for some reason it was decided not to add them.

thanks!



De : Victor Toso <victortoso@xxxxxxxxxx>
À : bruts@xxxxxxx
Sujet : Re: spice-vdagent: how to enable additional mouse buttons?
Date : 12/05/2020 07:25:59 Europe/Paris
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Hi,

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:53:02AM +0200, bruts@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> Uri (and others),
>
> I found the similar question in a few corners of the internet
> and I think adding at least the additional default mouse
> buttons should not be all that much work.

You can take a look at this proposal to adding horizontal wheel
support to Spice

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2017-October/040558.html

> With some guidance I could probably do it myself, though the
> guidance would need to be quite substantial :)
>
> The mouse and the main buttons is already forwarded and that is
> the main part.
>
> with xev it is clear to see which buttons work on the host, but
> not on the guest.
>
> Anyone with some spare time (which I know is always limited for
> everyone), but help me where to fix this in the code and i will
> write a patch - or give me a good start - or start yourself.
>
> a semi working mouse in the guest is very annoying and can be
> one of the critical points why to use spice (or not) - at least
> i know it is in my case.
>
> Thanks!!

Cheers,
Victor

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