[winswitch] Trouble with xpra 0.13

Douglas Doole dougdoole at gmail.com
Fri May 30 00:36:34 BST 2014


Any insight on why windows are going to the wrong virtual desktop? It's
making 0.13.x pretty much unusable for me.

Should I open a ticket?


On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Douglas Doole <dougdoole at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oops, forgot to include shifter-users on my reply.
>
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Douglas Doole <dougdoole at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Yes, virtual desktops. I'm using KDE. 0.12.x was working fine. I also had
>> not seen the problem when my client was at 0.13 and the server was at
>> 0.12.6. It was only once I upgraded the server that I had trouble.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is related to 555 or not. Currently,
>> konsole->Help->About goes to the wrong virtual desktop.
>>
>> Here's the log with -d workspace:
>>
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:03,963 buggy Ubuntu swscale version detected: (2, 1, 0)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:03,963 cowardly refusing to use it to avoid problems,
>> set the environment variable:
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:03,963 XPRA_FORCE_SWSCALE=1
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:03,963 to use it anyway, at your own risk
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:03,963  cannot import csc_swscale (swscale colorspace
>> conversion): unsupported Ubuntu swscale version: (2, 1, 0)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:03,966 buggy avcodec version detected: (53, 35, 0)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:03,966 cowardly refusing to use it to avoid crashes, set
>> the environment variable:
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:03,966 XPRA_FORCE_AVCODEC=1
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:03,966 to use it anyway, at your own risk
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:03,966  cannot import dec_avcodec (avcodec decoder):
>> unsupported avcodec version: (53, 35, 0)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:03,967  cannot import enc_webm (webp encoder): Could not
>> find webp library from ['libwebp.so.5', 'libwebp.so.4']
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:03,967  cannot import dec_webm (webp encoder): Could not
>> find webp library from ['libwebp.so.5', 'libwebp.so.4']
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:03,982 xpra client version 0.13.0
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,009 csc module csc_swscale could not be loaded:
>> unsupported Ubuntu swscale version: (2, 1, 0)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,009 video decoder dec_avcodec could not be loaded:
>> unsupported avcodec version: (53, 35, 0)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,018 OpenGL disabled: Ubuntu 12.04 is too buggy
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,158 detected keyboard: rules=evdev, model=pc105,
>> layout=us
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,159 desktop size is 3520x1200 with 1 screen(s):
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,159   ':0.0' (924x315 mm) workarea: 3407x1200 at 113x0
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,159     LVDS1 1600x900 (309x174 mm)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,159     VGA1 1920x1200 at 1600x0 (474x296 mm)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,689 server: Linux Ubuntu 12.04 precise, Xpra version
>> 0.13.0 (r6550)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,693 Attached to ssh:reorx:1 (press Control-C to
>> detach)
>>
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,723 init_window(..) workspace=1
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,740 init_window(..) workspace=1
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,780 ClientWindow(1).set_workspace() workspace=1
>> ndesktops=4
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,782 do_worskpace_changed(<gtk.gdk.Event at 0x2ff7878:
>> GDK_PROPERTY_NOTIFY atom=_NET_WM_DESKTOP>) window/desktop: from (1, -1) to
>> (1, 1)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,782 window was on a different workspace, resetting
>> its batch delay
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,788 ClientWindow(2).set_workspace() workspace=1
>> ndesktops=4
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,789 do_worskpace_changed(<gtk.gdk.Event at 0x2ff7878:
>> GDK_PROPERTY_NOTIFY atom=_NET_WM_DESKTOP>) window/desktop: from (1, -1) to
>> (1, 1)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:04,789 window was on a different workspace, resetting
>> its batch delay
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:09,541 init_window(..) workspace=None
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:09,570 ClientWindow(9).set_workspace() workspace=None
>> ndesktops=4
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:09,570 map event: been_mapped=False, changed workspace
>> from None to 0
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:09,574 do_worskpace_changed(<gtk.gdk.Event at 0x2ff7aa8:
>> GDK_PROPERTY_NOTIFY atom=_NET_WM_DESKTOP>) window/desktop: from (0, -1) to
>> (0, 1)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:09,575 window is on a different workspace, increasing
>> its batch delay
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:09,584 do_worskpace_changed(<gtk.gdk.Event at 0x2ff7aa8:
>> GDK_PROPERTY_NOTIFY atom=_NET_WM_DESKTOP>) window/desktop: from (0, 1) to
>> (0, 1)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:14,710 workspace_changed('from <XRootPropWatcher object
>> at 0x3162190 (xpra+x11+xroot_props+XRootPropWatcher at 0x2d58b80)> event',)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:14,711 do_worskpace_changed(desktop workspace changed)
>> window/desktop: from (1, 1) to (1, 0)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:14,711 window is on a different workspace, increasing
>> its batch delay
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:14,713 do_worskpace_changed(desktop workspace changed)
>> window/desktop: from (1, 1) to (1, 0)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:14,713 window is on a different workspace, increasing
>> its batch delay
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:14,714 do_worskpace_changed(desktop workspace changed)
>> window/desktop: from (0, 1) to (0, 0)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:14,715 window was on a different workspace, resetting
>> its batch delay
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:16,214 workspace_changed('from <XRootPropWatcher object
>> at 0x3162190 (xpra+x11+xroot_props+XRootPropWatcher at 0x2d58b80)> event',)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:16,215 do_worskpace_changed(desktop workspace changed)
>> window/desktop: from (1, 0) to (1, 1)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:16,215 window was on a different workspace, resetting
>> its batch delay
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:16,217 do_worskpace_changed(desktop workspace changed)
>> window/desktop: from (1, 0) to (1, 1)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:16,218 window was on a different workspace, resetting
>> its batch delay
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:16,219 do_worskpace_changed(desktop workspace changed)
>> window/desktop: from (0, 0) to (0, 1)
>> 2014-05-26 11:15:16,219 window is on a different workspace, increasing
>> its batch delay
>>
>>
>> For the encoding problem, I have "encoding = png" in my xpra.conf file. I
>> tried playing around with the encoding option in the tray icon (switched
>> away from PNG and back), but it didn't make any difference.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>wrote:
>>
>>> On 26/05/14 21:19, Douglas Doole wrote:
>>> > Just moved to xpra 0.13 and I'm hitting a couple problems:
>>> >
>>> > - I have my windows on desktop #2, but when I open a new window, it
>>> keeps
>>> > showing up on desktop #1.
>>> By desktop, I assume you mean virtual desktops? What desktop environment
>>> are you using? Unity?
>>> Is this a regression from 0.12? (I didn't think much had changed in this
>>> area..)
>>> There was a bug before 0.12.3, but I believe it has been fixed already:
>>> http://xpra.org/trac/ticket/555
>>>
>>> Can you post the client log by running it with:
>>> xpra -d workspace attach ..
>>> > - I have my encoding set to PNG (24/32 bpp), but there are moments
>>> when the
>>> > graphics look fuzzy (as if one of the compressed encodings is being
>>> used).
>>> Hmm, one of the major improvements in 0.13 is the more dynamic selection
>>> of picture encodings to suit the bandwidth, latency constraints and
>>> picture data size..
>>> But this should only kick in when a video encoding is selected (which
>>> should be the default for most people), definitely not with PNG/RGB so
>>> this sounds like a bug :(
>>> How do you select PNG? From the command line or from the tray?
>>> (does switching to the other method change anything?)
>>> > Both my client and server are Ubuntu 12.04. There's nothing that
>>> stands out
>>> > to me in either the client or server default logs.
>>> (...)
>>> > 2014-05-26 10:15:11,422 send_delayed for wid 6, elapsed time 501.1 is
>>> above
>>> > limit of 500.0 - sending now
>>> FYI: This "above limit" message tends to happen when the link is
>>> saturated or slow. In which case PNG is probably not the best encoding
>>> to use. (not an excuse for the bug above though!)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Antoine
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>>
>>
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>> --
>> -- Doug Doole
>>
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