[winswitch] [xpra] Implementation of Java/Android client

[Antoine Martin]

On 12/05/15 13:46, Jakub Księżniak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Of course, I'm willing to share the code and I thought about 
> publishing it on GitHub, but it's quite a mess now. I'll try to clean 
> up it soon, or I can PM you earlier if you want.
"Release early, release often"... something we have somewhat failed to 
do lately.
But if I post it, others may be able to help.

I've just posted an updated Android build based on the current trunk 
(which is not great but better than nothing):
http://xpra.org/beta/Android/
>
> Regarding 'transient-for' hint, I've got difficulties to run xprop and 
> open menus at the same time. :) The program I run is 'konsole' from 
> KDE, but also Gimp and other apps have this issue.
You can always run "DISPLAY=:XXX xprop -root -tree" via ssh, or using a 
sleep timer from another terminal.
That's what I did and I found a bug in xpra which prevented us from 
detecting the "transient-for" hint if the window referred to is an 
override-redirect window, this is fixed in:
http://xpra.org/trac/changeset/9351/xpra
And will be in the next stable update.

Cheers
Antoine


>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Jakub Księżniak
>
> 2015-05-12 6:56 GMT+02:00 Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk 
> <mailto:antoine at nagafix.co.uk>>:
>
>     On 12/05/15 00:52, Jakub Księżniak wrote:
>
>         Hello devs,
>
>         I've started writing a new Java/Android client. Currently, I'm
>         developing a
>         Swing client as a Proof of Concept and I think, that it has
>         already
>         surpassed the old java client found in SVN repo, as it
>         supports both
>         bencode and rencode packet encodings, fully controls
>         life-cycle of windows
>         and popups (create, move, resize, etc.) and handles all mouse
>         events.
>
>     Excellent!
>     Can you share the code so we can try it?
>
>         However, it still lacks keyboard support and I'd like to ask
>         you for help
>         and explanation, how key mapping works? (If that's not
>         possible then I'll
>         try to figure out it on my own. :-))
>
>     Good question.. but there is no easy answer I am afraid.
>     The key mapping code is a mixture of GTK and X11 key definitions
>     (because that's how the code started), with lots of hacks to get
>     other platforms to work more or less properly...
>
>         In the old java client there is a code that builds
>         key-mappings and appends
>         them to 'hello' packet. Each KeySpec consists of a keyval,
>         keyname,
>         keycode, group and level. Then, on 'key-action' event, there
>         is sent
>         keyval, keyname and keycode again. It looks like some
>         redundant data is
>         sent here, so I'd like to simplify it a bit, but first I need
>         to understand
>         what design decisions are behind this key-mapping logic. :p
>
>     Mostly: backwards compatibility.
>     They are not as redundant as you might think. The same keycode can
>     emit multiple keysyms.
>     I would focus on getting the basics working with your new client
>     rather than trying to refactor some code which is very tricky to
>     get right for all platforms.
>     (unless you have time to test all the platforms with all the
>     layouts - we're talking many weeks of testing here...)
>
>         Also, I've noticed some issues with my Xpra installation
>         (v0.14.22):
>         1. Initial window positioning constantly changes.
>         a) $ xpra start :100 --start-child=xterm
>         b) Connect with 'xpra attach' to the server and move the
>         window to the top
>         left corner.
>         c) Disconnect and connect repeatedly and notice how the window
>         is moved a
>         bit down on each connection. (I'm using KDE environment, if it
>         helps.)
>
>     That's a known issue with the window frame moving the actual
>     window contents a bit.
>     Not a huge issue IMO.
>
>         2. When a menu is opened, the Xpra server provides a
>         'transient-for' value
>         which helps to associate with a parent window, but when a
>         sub-menu is
>         opened the 'transient-for' is missing. Is it a correct behaviour?
>
>     Which application are you testing with?
>     The transient-for hint is supplied (or not) by client applications
>     and xpra just forwards it to the client.
>     Unfortunately, many applications and toolkits do not always
>     provide this useful window management hint.
>     You can verify it server-side with xprop.
>
>     Cheers
>     Antoine
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