LOOKING-GLASS-CLIENT(1)

📦 version 0+b6, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

✨ LOOKING-GLASS-CLIENT ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the looking-glass-client manual page, part of the General Commands Manual 💅 this is the whole vibe, let's go 🦋

🎀 NAME 🎀

looking-glass-client — low latency KVM FrameRelay implementation 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

looking-glass-client [OPTIONS]

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so basically, LookingGlass lets you use shared memory to pass rendered frames from a virtual machine back to the host system. it's giving teleportation but for pixels ✨

you also need a LookingGlass Host implementation running on the guest virtual machine. and like, listen — it is recommended that the client and host versions match. fr fr, keep them in sync 🙈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h — print out this help, king 🫶
  • -C PATH — specify an additional configuration file to load 📂
  • -f PATH — specify the path to the shared memory file [default: /dev/shm/looking-glass] 🗂️
  • -L SIZE — specify the size in MB of the shared memory file (0 = detect) [default: 0] 📏
  • -s — disable spice client 🚫
  • -c HOST — specify the spice host or UNIX socket [default: 127.0.0.1] 🌐
  • -p PORT — specify the spice port or 0 for UNIX socket [default: 5900] 🔌
  • -j — disable cursor position scaling 🖱️
  • -M — don't hide the host cursor 👀
  • -K — set the FPS limit [default: 200] 🎞️
  • -k — enable FPS display 📊
  • -g NAME — force the use of a specific renderer 🔥
  • -o OPTION — specify a renderer option (ie: opengl:vsync=0)

alternatively specify "list" to list all renderers and their options 📝

  • -a — auto resize the window to the guest 🪟
  • -n — don't allow the window to be manually resized 🙅
  • -r — don't maintain the aspect ratio 📐
  • -d — borderless mode 🖼️
  • -F — borderless fullscreen mode 🌈
  • -x XPOS — initial window X position [default: center] ⬅️
  • -y YPOS — initial window Y position [default: center] ⬆️
  • -w WIDTH — initial window width [default: 1024] ↔️
  • -b HEIGHT — initial window height [default: 768] ↕️
  • -Q — ignore requests to quit (ie: Alt+F4) 💀
  • -l — license information 📜

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

looking-glass-client is written by Geoffrey McRae (https://looking-glass.hostfission.com/) 👑

this manual page was written by Lennart Weller <lhw@ring0.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others) 💜

okay that's the whole page, mwah 😭💖 this version was dated June 04, 2018 and came from the Debian side of the manual-verse, no cap. go slay some frames bestie, periodt 🎀✨

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