bug#40926: closed (spice-vdagent not scaling the display)

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regarding spice-vdagent not scaling the display
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> spice-vdagent not scaling the display
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> Tue, 28 Apr 2020 08:30:53 +0000
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> Hi,
> I have installed guix v1.1.0 as a guest OS using virt-manager. In the 
> misc. services section of the manual 
> http://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#Miscellaneous-Services , it is 
> suggested to enable the spice-vdagent service. So, with help on irc chat 
> I added the two lines in my config.scm
> (use-service modules ... spice)
> (spice-vdagent-service) in the services list.
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> On rebooting with the newly configurated build, I'm able to use the 
> clipboard feature of spice, but the display does not scale on resizing 
> the window (I have checked the option - Autoresize VM with the window in 
> virt-manager).
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> Relevant Log:
> localhost shepherd[1]: Service spice-vdagentd has been started.
> localhost spice-vdagentd: GetSeats failed: The name 
> org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service files
> localhost spice-vdagentd: (console-kit) seat: (null)
> localhost spice-vdagentd: no session info, max 1 session agent allowed
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> Sun, 24 Mar 2024 20:24:35 -0400
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> Hi,
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> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Which desktop environment were you using?  If it was Xfce, it's a known
> > bug [0], and there's not much we can do about.  It should work fine out
> > of the box for GNOME.
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> > Thank you,
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> > Maxim
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> > [0]  https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/-/issues/142
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> We haven't heard back; I assume the problem was the one above, which was
> worked around in the Guix Xfce demo VM via the x-resize tool.
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> Closing.
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> Thanks,
> Maxim
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