[winswitch] [ANNOUNCE] xpra 0.3.3

Antoine Martin antoine at nagafix.co.uk
Tue Jul 10 20:25:35 BST 2012


On 11/07/12 02:23, Neal Becker wrote:
> So if I'm on Fedora 17,
So am I.

> I already have:
>
> rpm -qf /usr/bin/Xorg
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.12.2-4.fc17.x86_64
>
> So I'm guessing I would need:
>
> https://www.xpra.org/src/Xdummy/Fedora/17/xorg-x11-drv-dummy-0.3.4-9.fc17.x86_64.rpm
No, you don't need that, F17 is more recent than this.
(I'll remove these old builds)

> And also since X is installed suid, need to follow instructions for
> that.
Yes, simple "cp".

> Is that the basic install then?  Any config needed?
Yes, you need an xorg.conf with dummy screen, the one on that page works 
fine.

Cheers
Antoine



>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk
> <mailto:antoine at nagafix.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     On 11/07/12 02:11, Neal Becker wrote:
>
>         I thin the problem is this:
>
>         runing on xpra:
>         xdpyinfo:
>
>         screen #0:
>             dimensions:    3840x2560 pixels (975x650 millimeters)
>             resolution:    100x100 dots per inch
>
>
>         using ssh -X:
>
>         xdpyinfo:
>
>         screen #0:
>             dimensions:    1680x1050 pixels (371x231 millimeters)
>             resolution:    115x115 dots per inch
>
>     You are problably right, although this is nothing new in 0.3.3
>
>     The solution is well known too:
>     https://xpra.org/Xdummy.html
>
>     I have discussed the packaging issue today with some Debian
>     developers and I intend to try to make it the default to use Xdummy
>     on distributions that ship sufficiently recent X11 packages.
>     Probably not before v0.5 though, as v0.4.0 is almost ready.
>
>     Cheers
>     Antoine
>
>
>
>
>
>         On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Neal Becker
>         <ndbecker2 at gmail.com <mailto:ndbecker2 at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:ndbecker2 at gmail.com <mailto:ndbecker2 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>              Thanks for 0.3.3.
>
>              Just tried.  Running emacs, it looks to me that the fonts
>         look thin.
>                I don't think that was the case on 0.3.2 (I might be
>         mistaken).
>
>
>
>
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