Message ID | 20201208115737.18581-1-kraxel@redhat.com |
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Headers | show |
Series | vnc: support some new extensions. | expand |
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 12:57:28PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > The rfb standard keeps envolving. While the official spec is kind of > frozen since a decade or so the community maintains an updated version > of the spec at: > https://github.com/rfbproto/rfbproto/ > > This series adds support for two new extensions from that spec: alpha > cursor and extended desktop resize. > > alpha cursor allows a full alpha channel for the cursor image (unlike > the rich cursor extension which has only a bitmask for transparency). > > extended desktop resize makes the desktop-resize work both ways, i.e. we > can not only signal guest display resolution changes to the vnc client > but also vnc client window size changes to the guest. > > Tested with tigervnc. > > gtk-vnc (and anything building on top of it like virt-viewer and > virt-manager) has no support for these extensions. I'm working on adding these two extensions to gtk-vnc as they're a notable gap compared to spice. Regards, Daniel