[winswitch] xpra and the letter A

Troy Cauble troycauble at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 03:40:14 BST 2012


FYI, I rolled back to xpra_0.0.7.34-1_amd64.deb on the ubuntu box and
winswitch 0.12.9 on the mac and they work.

-troy

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Troy Cauble <troycauble at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just for fun I ssh'd to my server and ran 'xpra attach :100' locally
> and back through my ssh tunnel.
> The letter A/a worked on that.  But when I backspaced to my prompt
> (which I think would cause a BELL),
> xpra attach died with
>
> $ xpra attach :100
> Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display "localhost:12.0".
> cannot import dbus.glib notification wrapper:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files
> mmap enabled using /tmp/xpra.k81xUq.mmap
> disabling compression
> Attached (press Control-C to detach)
> The program 'xpra' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'XkbBadKeyboard'.
>  (Details: serial 807 error_code 143 request_code 140 minor_code 3)
>  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Troy Cauble <troycauble at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And it was lower and upper case A.  The other lowercase letters worked.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Troy Cauble <troycauble at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> See attached.
>>> -troy
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> On 03/28/2012 03:33 AM, Troy Cauble wrote:
>>>>> Running
>>>>> xpra start :100
>>>>> DISPLAY=:100 xterm
>>>>> on my ubuntu box
>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>> /Applications/Window-Switch.app/Contents/Helpers/xpra attach ssh:mybox:100
>>>>>
>>>>> on my Macbook
>>>>>
>>>>> I get an xterm that works except
>>>>> the letter A won't type (!)
>>>> Hah, that is a bit of a problem! Can you post the xpra server log?
>>>> I suspect that the keymap ran out of free keys to use to map your client
>>>> keys.. Is it just the uppercase version or, any 'a'?
>>>> The default keyboard map (us) should have an 'a' anyway, very strange.
>>>> Please post "xmodmap -pke" in an xpra client window.
>>>>
>>>>> and copy and paste don't work.
>>>> Cut&paste lacks a decent API on Mac OS X, so it may never be supported
>>>> properly (if at all):
>>>> https://xpra.org/trac/ticket/11
>>>>
>>>> Antoine
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Both of my winswitch installs were updated last night.
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