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

Antoine Martin antoine at nagafix.co.uk
Wed Aug 7 06:20:06 BST 2013


On 07/08/13 12:13, Arthur Zey wrote:
> 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.)
*The* menu, since there is only one on OSX, that big thing that always 
sits at the top left of your screen!
>
>     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?
on OSX and Linux:
.winswitch/

Antoine

>
> Thanks again for however you can help.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Arthur Zey
> Arthur at DeltaWerx.com <mailto:Arthur at DeltaWerx.com>
> 213-915-6442
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk 
> <mailto: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
>
>         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
>
>         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/
>
>         (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 ).
>
>     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 <tel:213-915-6442>
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