[winswitch] Failed to encode packet error using xpra-0.8.3

[Antoine Martin]

Please keep this on-list.

On 02/13/2013 01:18 AM, Douglas Doole wrote:
> This problem only occurs in 0.8.3 - 0.8.2 runs fine.
Yes, the python2.4 compatibility fix in 0.8.3 undid the workaround for
platforms where the "monitor plug name" is "None"... This is fixed in:
https://www.xpra.org/trac/changeset/2730

Since this is a serious bug and may well affect others, I will push out
0.8.4 shortly with this bug fix.

Antoine


> get_screen_sizes has "None" in it:
> 2013-02-12 13:10:31,491 get_screen_sizes()=[(':0.0', 3600, 1200, 709,
> 242, [(None, 0, 0, 1680, 1050, -1, -1), (None, 1680, 0, 1920, 1200, -1,
> -1)], 112, 0, 3488, 1200)]
> 
> I'm running on a dual monitor configuration, configured for
> side-by-side. My laptop's built-in screen is 1680x1050 and my external
> monitor is 1920x1200. I'm using nVidia's twinview to merge them into a
> single display of 3600x1200.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk
> <mailto:antoine at nagafix.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     (snip)
>     > Somewhere in your initial packet is a "None" value, this shouldn't
>     > happen and the encoder is failing because of that.
>     >
>     > (snip)
>     >>
>     >> Any suggestions?
>     >>
>     > If you can run with "-d all", you should see the full packet printed,
>     > and somewhere in it is going to be the value "None". If you can
>     tell me
>     > where that is, I can fix it asap.
>     Just a wild guess from the depth of the stacktrace, the "None" value
>     might come from the "get_screen_sizes" call, so running:
>     xpra ... -d all | grep get_screen_sizes
>     Might gives us a clue.
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