Bug 85658

Summary:	Options to start maximized, hide menus + window decorations
Product:	Spice	Reporter:	Mauro Santos <registo.mailling>
Component:	spice-gtk	Assignee:	Spice Bug List <spice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Mauro Santos 2014-10-30 18:57:56 UTC

It would be nice if there was a command line option to start spicy maximized, since spicy always starts with a small window.

Another nice feature to have would be an option to hide all menus/toolbar/statusbar and window decorations, making spicy behave/look like rdesktop when used with the -D option.

This second option together with the first one, would make it possible to use spicy on a secondary screen as if it was in fullscreen, it would also have the benefit of maximizing the available space when used in the main screen.

Comment 1 Christophe Fergeau 2014-10-31 12:40:18 UTC

spicy is a test application, the full-fledged spice viewer is remote-viewer (shipped with virt-viewer tarball).
Why do you want some kind of fake fullscreen mode rather than starting directly in fullscreen?

Comment 2 Mauro Santos 2014-10-31 15:04:57 UTC

I was not aware that spicy was a test application, I have tried both spicy and remote-viewer and to me spicy seems to provide more functionality (add the "send key" menu of remote-viewer to spicy and it becomes the winner hands down).

There are two reasons why I ask for options that would allow a fake fullscreen:

1) maximize the usable screen area available for the guest window if used on the main screen where the task bar and/or other panels are visible
2) fullscreen will "lock" all screens even if the viewer is fullscreen on only one display (displays of different sizes).

These options are very useful if one needs to run another OS only for a few applications and it is necessary to switch back and forth from host to guest often or if one wants to have one screen for the host and another for the guest and work on both at the same time.

Comment 3 Marc-Andre Lureau 2014-11-02 23:12:33 UTC

spicy is not a fully-featured client.

Your request overlaps with the following virt-viewer RFE:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1061817

closing as moved

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