[winswitch] Difficulty installing/running on Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
Arthur Zey
arthur at deltawerx.com
Wed Aug 7 18:41:46 BST 2013
Antoine:
Please run in debug mode to get more info in the logs (and make sure no
> passwords are in them), preferably using:
> winswitch_applet --debug-mode
Unfortunately, I was unable to start in debug mode, as you suggested. I
managed to find the winswitch_applet binary, but I got an error when
executing:
[tw-mbp-azey bin]$ pwd
> /Applications/Window-Switch.app/Contents/Resources/bin
> [tw-mbp-azey bin]$ ll
> total 3088
> drwxr-xr-x@ 24 azey admin 816 Jun 30 04:20 .
> drwxr-xr-x@ 20 azey admin 680 Jun 30 04:20 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 azey admin 16928 Jun 30 04:20 GST_Launcher
> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 azey admin 16928 Jun 30 04:20 Xpra_Launcher
> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 azey admin 20924 Jun 30 04:19 nxproxy
> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 azey admin 16928 Jun 30 04:19 python
> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 azey admin 278156 Feb 3 2013 rdesktop
> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 azey admin 162112 Feb 3 2013 vncconfig
> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 azey admin 28492 Feb 3 2013 vncpasswd
> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 azey admin 20719 Feb 3 2013 vncserver
> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 azey admin 927268 Jun 30 04:19 vncviewer
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 azey admin 25 Jun 30 04:22 wcw ->
> winswitch_command_wrapper
> -rwxrwxr-x@ 1 azey admin 90 Jun 30 04:20 winswitch_applet
> -rwxrwxr-x@ 1 azey admin 87 Jun 30 04:20 winswitch_away
> -rwxrwxr-x@ 1 azey admin 87 Jun 30 04:20 winswitch_back
> -rwxrwxr-x@ 1 azey admin 102 Jun 30 04:20 winswitch_client
> -rwxrwxr-x@ 1 azey admin 88 Jun 30 04:20 winswitch_command_wrapper
> -rwxrwxr-x@ 1 azey admin 84 Jun 30 04:20 winswitch_open_remotely
> -rwxrwxr-x@ 1 azey admin 90 Jun 30 04:20 winswitch_server
> -rwxrwxr-x@ 1 azey admin 80 Jun 30 04:20 winswitch_ssh_Xnest
> -rwxrwxr-x@ 1 azey admin 77 Jun 30 04:20 winswitch_ssh_session
> -rwxrwxr-x@ 1 azey admin 119 Jun 30 04:20 winswitch_stdio_socket
> -rwxrwxr-x@ 1 azey admin 113 Jun 30 04:20 winswitch_stdio_tcp
> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 azey admin 16928 Jun 30 04:20 xpra
> [tw-mbp-azey bin]$ ./winswitch_applet --debug-mode --without-virtualbox
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./winswitch_applet", line 3, in <module>
> from winswitch.client import applet_wrapper
> ImportError: No module named winswitch.client
I'm afraid I'm not very good at figuring out what/how command line stuff
works in Mac OS.
However, I did edit the ~/.winswitch/client/client.conf file, and I set
"debug_mode=True" (changing it from "debug_mode=False"), and somehow, that
made the menu bar appear when I gave the dock icon focus. I switched it
back to "False", and the menu still works! (It's a little annoying to have
to deal with a dock icon instead of something in my "system tray", but I'll
live.) I managed to move a "Calculator" window from my Ubuntu computer at
home to my Mac OS laptop at work, so it looks like I'm in business. Now I
just have to install Pidgin, blah, blah, blah, on the Ubuntu computer at
home, and get used to the workflow of connecting to that from my various
computers.
Thanks for your help, even if it ended up helping me only accidentally!
Best Regards,
Arthur Zey
Arthur at DeltaWerx.com
213-915-6442
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>wrote:
> On 07/08/13 12:45, Arthur Zey wrote:
>
> *The* menu, since there is only one on OSX, that big thing that always
>> sits at the top left of your screen!
>
>
> I thought that might be what you meant, but there's nothing there.
>
> Ah :(
>
>
> on OSX and Linux:
>> .winswitch/
>
>
> A gzipped copy of that directory, which includes a few log files, is
> available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wog3aqyn2epn5z1/winswitch.tar.gz
>
> Please run in debug mode to get more info in the logs (and make sure no
> passwords are in them), preferably using:
> winswitch_applet --debug-mode
> or by setting debug=on in the applet config file.
>
>
> I noticed a few references to a VirtualBox virtual machine that I have
> installed (although I never told Windows-Switch about it, nor was the VM
> running at any point during or after the installation). I wonder if that
> could be causing some trouble. Could connected VNC sessions be messing with
> the installation? I also saw a reference to that.
>
> The built-in server detected your virtualbox sessions and will expose them
> to *clients* connected to this machine as a *server*.
> This should not interfere with anything, but just in case you can disable
> it in the config file:
> server/protocols/virtualbox.conf
> or by running with:
> --without-virtualbox
>
>
> Let me know where the right place would be to file a ticket if neither
> you nor anybody else on this thread can help with the log/config files.
>
> http://winswitch.org/trac/
>
> Cheers
> Antoine
>
>
> Thank you yet again!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Arthur Zey
> Arthur at DeltaWerx.com
> 213-915-6442
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> 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
>> 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
>>>>
>>>> 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
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