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

[Zenny]

On 11/16/15, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk> wrote:
> On 15/11/15 20:48, Zenny wrote:
>> 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 am using the one that gets generated in the xpra.conf like so:
>
> export DISPLAY=:10
> xpra_Xdummy -noreset -nolisten tcp +extension GLX +extension RANDR
> +extension RENDER -auth $XAUTHORITY -logfile
> ${HOME}/.xpra/Xorg.${DISPLAY}.log -configdir ${HOME}/.xpra/xorg.conf.d
> -config /etc/xpra/xorg.conf $DISPLAY

Thanks for sharing, but ould not figure out 'xpra_Xdummy' :

Is that underscore a typo?

Else let me know what I am missing? I am on v0.16.0-1 beta.

Cheers,
/z

>
> Antoine
>
>>
>>
>>>> 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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