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Description of problem:
Mouse pointer visibly leaves spice-gtk widget in relative mouse mode

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
spice-gtk3-0.35-7.el8.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. in a VM with disabled vmport (<features><vmport state='off'/>) or USB tablet and vdagent not active, move mouse pointer consistently in one direction
2.
3.

Actual results:
mouse pointer leaves the widget

Expected results:
mouse pointer, wherever it is, should never apparently leave spice-gtk widget

Additional info:
This is old bug dating to earliest versions of spice-gtk, but the oldie spicec never suffered from it

Does not happen when running with x11 backend, that is, GDK_BACKEND=x11 remote-viewer ..
We will address wayland backend issues upstream and target is 8.1

Wayland related issues where not addressed yet, moving to the backlog

Issue is due to lack of official, stable support in Wayland for pointer locking in the widget.
Wayland-protocols come to the rescue.. patch merged upstream:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk/-/commit/dd7015d57c

Ongoing build, I'm setting ITR to 8.3.0 to get the release+

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (spice-gtk bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:4817