[winswitch] Difficulty installing/running on Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Wed Aug 7 06:13:19 BST 2013

Antoine, thank you for your fast response!

You should install the mDNS bits, without those you will have to connect to
> your server by IP address which is tedious (and often changes between
> restarts).
> With mdns correctly installed, your client will see your server appear on
> the network and connect to it automatically.

I'm not worried about that--I have a dynamic DNS updater on my router, a
static local IP address, and appropriate port forwarding (already
configured for SSH on an alternative port).

Do you see anything in the global application menu?
> There should be options there for connecting to servers and starting apps.

Forgive me, but what is the "global application menu"? I have not come
across that yet. (The dock icon has no application-specific options, left-
or right-clicking.)

You may want to file a ticket and add your log files.

What's the best way to do that. Where are the log files, and how can I
access them?

Thanks again for however you can help.

Best Regards,

Arthur Zey
Arthur at DeltaWerx.com
213-915-6442

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>wrote:

> On 07/08/13 06:00, Arthur Zey wrote:
>
>> Please forgive the elementary nature of this question, but most of my
>> previous experience has been in Windows, and only about a year ago have I
>> started really getting into Linux (Ubuntu), and only just within the last
>> few weeks have I consistently started using a Mac as my primary computer.
>>
>> I've installed Windows-Switch on my Ubuntu 13.04 machine according to the
>> instructions here:
>> https://winswitch.org/**downloads/debian-repository.**
>> html?dist_select=raring<https://winswitch.org/downloads/debian-repository.html?dist_select=raring>
>>
>> I followed up by running "sudo apt-get install xpra python-wimpiggy"
>> (since
>> "sudo apt-get upgrade" indicated that those packages could be upgraded,
>> but
>> it wouldn't do it automatically) before launching Windows-Switch from the
>> application launcher (which I assume I won't have to do in the future,
>> since it'll launch automatically on startup, right?),
>>
> It should, though desktop environment changes can break things.
> (and Ubuntu in particular)
>
>    and it went through
>> the initial run process. I got a few error messages (something about
>> having
>> to do SSH tunneling and something about what I think was related to
>> automatic discovery of clients), but I'm not worried about that quite yet.
>>
> You should install the mDNS bits, without those you will have to connect
> to your server by IP address which is tedious (and often changes between
> restarts).
> With mdns correctly installed, your client will see your server appear on
> the network and connect to it automatically.
>
>  (Eventually, the program I expect to be using through this is Pidgin, but
>> I
>> don't have that up and running on this computer yet.) The point is that,
>> unlike what I'll describe below on the Mac, the Ubuntu machine properly
>> places a Windows-Switch icon in the Ubuntu equivalent of a system tray, as
>> pictured here: https://winswitch.org/**documentation/start.html<https://winswitch.org/documentation/start.html>
>>
>> The problem I'm having is on my primary laptop (which I ultimately want to
>> display the Pidgin process). I followed the instructions for Intel-based
>> Macs here: http://winswitch.org/**downloads/<http://winswitch.org/downloads/>
>>
>> (My computer is a MacBook Pro Retina, running 10.8.4 on a 2.4 GHz Intel
>> Core i7--is there any other information that would be diagnostically
>> relevant?)
>>
> That should be enough.
>
>  During the installation, I dragged the icon into the Applications folder,
>> then launched it. After clicking "Open" on the obligatory
>> are-you-sure-because-this-was-**downloaded-from-the-interwebs! message,
>> it
>> put an icon on my dock and briefly displayed a notification saying that it
>> was setting some stuff up for first use (like it did on the Ubuntu
>> machine). However, it does not create an icon in my "system tray", as I
>> expected (and as is pictured here:
>> https://winswitch.org/**documentation/start.html<https://winswitch.org/documentation/start.html>).
>>
> Those screenshots are out of date for OSX, newer versions use the global
> menu to interact with the application instead of a tray icon.
>
>    Instead, the dock icon
>> remains with a little light underneath it indicating that it's currently
>> running. Clicking on the dock icon for Window-Switch does nothing, nor
>> does
>> it have any windows associated with it.
>>
> Do you see anything in the global application menu?
> There should be options there for connecting to servers and starting apps.
>
>  Quitting and restarting the process
>> makes no difference; neither does uninstalling and reinstalling it (which,
>> on a Mac, I understand is accomplished merely by sending the item to Trash
>> from the Applications folder, then re-copying it from the downloaded
>> image).
>>
> Correct.
>
>
>> Could anyone shed some light and help me figure this out, please?
>>
> I haven't tested on OSX for a while.
> You may want to file a ticket and add your log files.
>
> Cheers
> Antoine
>
>>
>> Thank you so very much in advance!
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Arthur Zey
>> Arthur at DeltaWerx.com
>> 213-915-6442
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