[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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