[winswitch] trying out xpra/winswitch

[Neal Becker]

Oh, xpra and winswitch are the latest versions (available via yum)


On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm baffled.  If I start emacs via xpra (using xdummy), it looks great.
>  If I start via winswitch it doesn't.  It looks like it's set to a lower
> resolution.
>
> Both clients and servers are fedora f17 linux.
>
> Within each of these emacs sessions, I ran xdpyinfo and xrandr.  Both
> outputs show no difference.  I compared the two Xorg.:7.log, Xorg.:62.log,
> and don't offhand see any significant diff (because of the timestamps,
> comparing these files I just did visually).
>
> I have no ideas how to debug this.  I'd like to use winswitch for the nice
> features, but emacs under xpra looks beautiful while emacs under winswitch
> looks bad.
>
> I was wrong about my guess that winswitch was not using xdummy.  I see
> that Xorg was started with the same command line in both cases.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> On 01/04/2013 07:47 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
>> > I have some info about 4.  It seems if I use xpra directly, the server
>> > started on the remote is using Xdummy driver, as per my xpra.conf.  But
>> > when started by winswitch, it is not.  Any ideas?
>> What versions have you got installed? What platform, distro, etc?
>> Old versions used to try to make xpra use Xdummy explicitly by
>> specifying the Xvfb command to use. But this is no longer the case, and
>> when winswitch launches xpra it will use the same configuration file as
>> when used from the command line?
>>
>> > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> 4. emacs started manually on remote using xpra looks much nicer than
>> emacs
>> >> started via winswitch.  I could send screenshots.
>> Quality is encoding related, it is quite possible that winswitch uses a
>> different encoding by default. Try holding launching your commands via
>> the full "Start Application" dialog, or by holding the "Shift" key as
>> you select the application from the start menu, these dialogs allow you
>> to select the encoding quality.
>> Or just compare once launched in the xpra tray menu.
>>
>> >> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Trying out latest on Fedora 17.
>> >>>
>> >>> 1. Which way to configure Xorg?  Right now I'm trying xvfb with the
>> dummy
>> >>> driver:
>> >>> xvfb=/usr/bin/Xorg-nosuid -dpi 96 -noreset -nolisten tcp +extension
>> GLX
>> >>> +extension RANDR +extension RENDER -logfile
>> >>> ${HOME}/.xpra/Xorg.${DISPLAY}.log -config /etc/xpra/xorg.conf
>> /etc/xpra.conf
>> Should have examples for both Xvfb and Xdummy. What is enabled depends
>> on your distro. If Xdummy is not chosen, chances are that your distro is
>> too old to support it adequately.
>>
>> >>> This seems to look nice on emacs.  But I wonder if this is the "best"
>> >>> option?  One thing is, it seems RANDR extension is reported as
>> missing.
>> >>>  For example, running xrandr --verbose from within emacs reports that.
>> As per:
>> http://xpra.org/Xdummy.html
>> Xdummy is the way forward and there are a number of unfixable bugs when
>> using Xvfb without randr.
>>
>> >>> 2. winswitch works, but if I try to start a remote desktop session it
>> >>> works with xpra, but not NX.  I believe it said something about ssh
>> server
>> >>> not forwarding?
>> Details please. Platform, versions, etc. Log files?
>>
>> >>> 3. In winswitch, if I try to start a different size desktop session,
>> it
>> >>> does not change size.  Probably related to RANDR missing?
>> What protocol are you using for your desktop session? NX? VNC? Xpra?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Antoine
>>
>>
>> >>>
>> >>
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