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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Which is best OS for Desktop Post 302592596 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 24th of January 2012 10:30:32 AM
Old 01-24-2012
These "best" questions can lead to problems. Can you please reformat it into what YOUR requirements are, e.g., smallest memory footprint, etc.

BTW you've already limited things by saying no Debian family. Limit it some more.
If this thread turns into what I'm afraid it will become, one of the mods will close the thread.
 

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spice-vdagent(1)					      General Commands Manual						  spice-vdagent(1)

NAME
spice-vdagent - Spice guest agent X11 session agent SYNOPSIS
spice-vdagent [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION
The spice guest agent for Linux consists of 2 parts, a system wide daemon spice-vdagentd and a X11 session agent spice-vdagent of which there is one per X11 session. spice-vdagent gets automatically started in desktop environments which honor /etc/xdg/autostart, and under gdm. FEATURES
The spice guest agent adds the following features to spice Linux guests: Client mouse mode (no need to grab mouse by client, no mouse lag) Automatic adjustment of the X11 session's number of virtual monitors, and their resolution, to the number of client windows and their reso- lution Support of copy and paste (text and images) between the active X11 session and the client, this supports both the primary selection and the clipboard Support for transfering files from the client to the agent OPTIONS
-h Print a short description of all command line options -d Log debug messages -s port Set virtio serial port (default: /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0) -x Don't daemonize -f dir|xdg-desktop|xdg-download Set directory where to save files send from the client, this can be either an arbitrary dir or one of the special values of xdg- desktop or xdg-download to select the default xdg Desktop resp. xdg Download directory. If no value is specified the default is xdg- desktop when running under a Desktop Environment which has icons on the desktop and xdg-download under other Desktop Environments -o 0|1 Disable/enable opening the file save directory with xdg-open (showing the directory in the file manager) when a file transfer from the client completes. If no value is specified the default is 0 when running under a Desktop Environment which has icons on the desktop and 1 under other Desktop Environments SEE ALSO
spice-vdagentd(1) COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2010-2013 Red Hat, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. spice-vdagent 0.14.0 April 2013 spice-vdagent(1)
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