Ditto on the catch up for this post too
Looking Glass Host Crash Fixed
In my previous post I mentioned that the host application is randomly crashing. I managed to isolate the cause yesterday and implemented a fix, it’s been 24 hours now and I am yet to see the host crash like it was prior 
I can understand not wanting to waste the few free hours you have to document changes.
Would you like to pursue alternatives, including but not limited to: automation or Trello boards?
Funny you should mention that, only yesterday I was looking for some tool to help me track project’s and their progress. I am yet to really give Trello a go, any advice?
If you’ve used the board feature in GitLab, these boards, Trello, work the exact same way.
Whether you want to go agile, waterfall, or scrum.
Other than that, its should just help people graphically realize the state of the project so you can be less burdened with questions.
If you would like to see what a well managed large scale project looks like, take a look at the one from the Subnautica team. Note, you can even interact with the trello boards here once the link is embedded (somewhat).
Thanks, I have actually been following the Subnautica Trello for a while, I think it would best suit my needs. I will get that sorted out as I am in desperate need to start tracking things in better detail in general, not just LG 
Glad I could help.
If you would like some further help with housekeeping tasks just let me know.
Ok, let’s give this a go…
Looking good! 
I went ahead and made the news public.
Last night I added DXGI 1.5 suport to Looking Glass which in some cases may improve performance substantially. As part of this the EGL renderer and DXGI capture both now also support RGB 10-bit HDR without any performance overhead. If anything it will be faster then prior.
The older DXGI API captures the desktop and then converts it to BGRA if it is not already in that format, which as it turns out many titles are not. The new API lets us bypass this conversion and take the raw frame data in it’s native format.
This locks us to requring windows 10, and I believe this new API is only available in the October 2018 update for Windows 10, it would be greaat if people could confirm. While I do not like enforcing an updated Windows install, this change is too major to ignore it’s potential benefits.
For the technical, the new API is:
Details of the above change are described in my latest video:
Good news everyone, all pending tasks holding back the Alpha 12 release have been completed! The changes between A11 and A12 are substantial and listed below. I will have A12 released within the next hour or so.
67 files changed, 6694 insertions(+), 1688 deletions(-)
Code Cleanup:
Features
Bugs fixed:
Tuning:
Edit: Correction, the next release will be A12 to give some testing time before releasing B1.
A few minor changes have gone into git master, this is not a release notice but a notice of a commit that may improve spice cursor performance considerably. Please see:
I am working on some more updates to the Spice interface that will help both performance and hopefully bring spice guest agent communications (read, Clipboard Sync).
It’s slow going due to the fact that RedHat have not updated the spice protocol documentation since 2009 which is full of errors, typos and missing a ton of information about the later versions of the protocol. It’s even a “Draft” according to the title page.
I have opened a ticket to try to get some traction on this being updated over here:
I am honestly not surprised that it hasn’t been maintained however, as far as I am aware Looking Glass is the first and only third party spice client implementation to date.
Made some more progress today, the latest version in git now supports client to host clipboard sync for text. To make it work you will need to ensure you have the spice-agent tools installed in windows and the appopriate spicevmc device on the guest.
-device virtio-serial-pci \
-chardev spicevmc,debug=10,id=vdagent,name=vdagent \
-device virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0Demo of new Clipboard Functionality:
Good news, as of a few minutes ago Looking Glass just got host to guest clipboard sync! I will make a demo video when I get a chance a bit later on.
Just a status update. Over the past week I have been working on rewriting the host application for several reasons.
I am very pleased to announce there is a new c-host directory in the git repository. This is a pure C rewrite with DXGI support and preliminary XCA SHM support (Yes, you read that right, Linux support!)
The state of DXGI is good, it works but with a few minor issues. XCA capture on the other hand requires some TLC to get it working correctly.
If you would like to build this application under windows it couldn’t be easier, simply install mingw64 and ensure your path is configured correctly, then run gmake.
Another long awaited update that will make many people happy. I have updated the project to make far better use of cmake. There are now options to enable/disable core features for people that want to build on platforms that may not have support for them.
It is now possible to disable the following features:
| Feature | cmake option | default | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenGL | ENABLE_OPENGL | Enabled | The Legacy OpenGL Renderer |
| EGL | ENABLE_EGL | Enabled | The modern OpenGL ES Renderer |
| X11 Clipboard | ENABLE_CB_X11 | Enabled | X11/Xorg Clipboard Integration |
For those unfamiliar with cmake, to specify these you must pass the -D switch, for example:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DENABLE_OPENGL=0 ..
makeNew feature, Scroll Lock is now also a super/escape key for additional commands.
For now there is only additional command bound which is ScrollLock+N for the EGL renderer which increases the gain/brightness of the capture source to assist with monitors with poor brightness when playing games that are dark.
Note that I am streaming at the moment, if you would like a demo just ask in the chat box.
Edit: Two more new keybinds.
ScrollLock+F= Full Screen Toggle
ScrollLock+I = Spice KB/Mouse Input Enable Toggle