[winswitch] issue with forwarding x to a lower res monitor from a virtual Xvfb

Zenny garbytrash at gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 13:48:35 GMT 2015


On 11/15/15, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk> wrote:
> I have tested here with Xdummy and that worked fine.

Can you share your Xdummy command if different from the one in the wiki?


>> I checked Xdummy related to Ubuntu instruction at
>> https://www.xpra.org/trac/wiki/Xdummy, but to no avail.
> Are you using Xvfb or Xdummy? What distribution and version?
>> Any hints would be highly appreciated. Thanks!
> You may also be interested in the following 0.16 features:
> * ability to NOT change the virtual display to match the client's
> resolution using:
> XPRA_RANDR=0 xpra start ...
> See:
> http://xpra.org/trac/changeset/11229
> Shadow mode is A LOT less efficient than the regular "start" mode.
> * desktop scaling, which allows you to upscale or downscale the server
> resolution when displayed on the client:
> http://xpra.org/trac/ticket/976
> So you could render at 4k and display at 2k for example (though the main
> purpose of this ticket is to do the opposite to save bandwidth).
> * "sync-xvfb" fix for screen capture tools:
> http://xpra.org/trac/ticket/988
>
> Cheers
> Antoine
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> /z
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