XSPICE(1)

Okay bestie, this is the manual page for XSPICE(1) from the User Commands section 🎀✨ Let's get into it!

✨ NAME ✨

Xspice is the X server and SPICE server, all in one 💖

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

The usage vibe is:

usage: Xspice [Xspice and Xorg options intermixed]

So Xspice is an X server AND a SPICE server, and you can toss Xspice and Xorg options together in any order 🦋 Here's a little example you can copy:

Xspice --port 5900 --disable-ticketing :1.0

🎀 optional arguments 🎀

Here's the full options lineup, bestie 💜

• -h, --help — pulls up the help message and then bounces 👋
• --xorg XORG — the manual doesn't spill any tea on this one 🙈
• --auto — automatically whips up a temporary xorg.conf and starts the X server, no effort needed ✨
• --xsession XSESSION — if you give this, it runs after Xorg launches. It should be a program like x-session-manager 🫶
• --config CONFIG — the manual is silent on this one 🙈
• --port PORT — the standard spice port 🌸
• --exit-on-disconnect — the X server yeets itself when any client disconnects 💀
• --deferred-fps DEFERRED_FPS — if you give this, it renders to a buffer and only sends updates this many times per second 🎬
• --tls-port TLS_PORT — the spice TLS port 🔐
• --disable-ticketing — no client password required, zero drama 🔓
• --sasl — enables SASL 🧚
• --x509-dir X509_DIR — the x509 directory for TLS 📁
• --cacert-file CACERT_FILE — the CA certificate file for TLS 📜
• --x509-cert-file X509_CERT_FILE — the server certificate file for TLS 🎟️
• --x509-key-file X509_KEY_FILE — the server key file for TLS 🗝️
• --x509-key-password X509_KEY_PASSWORD — the password for the key file, used for TLS 🔑
• --tls-ciphers TLS_CIPHERS — the manual doesn't say anything about this one 🙈
• --dh-file DH_FILE — same mystery energy, no details given 🙈
• --password PASSWORD — sets the password you need to connect to the server 🍓
• --image-compression {off,auto_glz,auto_lz,quic,glz,lz} — default is auto_glz 🌈
• --jpeg-wan-compression {auto,never,always} — default is auto 📸
• --zlib-glz-wan-compression {auto,never,always} — default is auto 🗜️
• --streaming-video {off,all,filter} — default is filter 🎥
• --ipv4-only — the manual gives no description, but the name says it's IPv4 only 🌐
• --ipv6-only — the manual gives no description, but the name says it's IPv6 only 🌐
• --vdagent — launches vdagent & vdagentd, which provide clipboard & resolution automation 📋🖥️
• --vdagent-virtio-path VDAGENT_VIRTIO_PATH — the virtio socket path used by vdagentd 🧦
• --vdagent-uinput-path VDAGENT_UINPUT_PATH — the uinput socket path used by vdagent 🎹
• --vdagentd-exec VDAGENTD_EXEC — the path to spice-vdagentd (used with --vdagent) 🛤️
• --vdagent-exec VDAGENT_EXEC — the path to spice-vdagent (used with --vdagent) 🛤️
• --vdagent-no-launch — does not launch vdagent & vdagentd. It's for debugging, or for when some external script wants to handle that part itself 🙅‍♀️
• --vdagent-uid VDAGENT_UID — sets the vdagent user id. Changing it only makes sense together with --vdagent-no-launch 👑
• --vdagent-gid VDAGENT_GID — sets the vdagent group id. Same deal: it only makes sense alongside --vdagent-no-launch 👑
• --audio-fifo-dir AUDIO_FIFO_DIR — sets the fifo directory for playback audio, designed to work with PulseAudio's module-pipe-sink 🎧

Any options Xspice doesn't parse get passed straight through to Xorg as-is 🦋

And that's the tea, bestie 💖 Brought to you by Xspice, last touched in May 2015 🌸 Stay iconic. 🧚