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

[Antoine Martin]

>>> Please find some more updates:
>>>
>>> §1 If I use Xdummy with xpra (as described in the wiki) and try to
>>> capture with ffmpeg the virtual console at 4k while displaying the
>>> remote in 1080p, it categorically reports as of below and fails to
>>> capture:
>>>
>>> [x11grab @ 0x2b2dc00] Capture area 3840x2160 at position 0.0 outside
>>> the screen size 1920x1080
>>> :10: Invalid argument
>> That's expected: Xdummy supports RandR and we resize the server's
>> virtual screen to match the size of the client's screen.
> Actually I want the server's virtual screen to remain at the same 4K
> resolution while downsizing the one of the client's screen to say 1K
> (in order to save bandwidth and for other reasons if any).
That doesn't make sense: if you render at 4K and downscale the image to 
about 1K, then it will be unreadable on the client. (16 times smaller)
There are ways to achieve server-side scaling with the video encoders, 
but that's meant to be used for saving bandwidth on video content and is 
mostly done automagically.
>>>>>>>> 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' :
>>>> http://xpra.org/trac/browser/xpra/trunk/src/scripts/xpra_Xdummy
>>> Thanks for very useful pointer:
>>>
>>> But how to specify the screen resolution with xpra_Xdummy (as you have
>>> suggested as quoted below)? In my case I need 4K in the virtual x
>>> server in server and 1K in the client, fyi
>>>
>>> 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
Use xrandr to change the resolution.
>> UPDATE: I started an xpra instance with the above command, but no xpra
>> sessions are listed:
>>
>> $ xpra list
>> xpra initialization error:
>>   No xpra sessions found
Then the session did not start.
Check your server log file, which will probably tell you that the Xvfb 
failed to start.
>>
>> The xpra_Xdummy command above displays following in the console:
>> http://hastebin.com/tudewavuxe.avrasm
> The relevant log is at:
>
> http://hastebin.com/miqaxajusa.vhdl
I've just tried it in an Ubuntu Trusty virtual machine and got the 
dreaded message:
"xf86OpenConsole: cannot open /dev/tty0"
Different error, but the same result: as I expected, Xdummy does not 
work on Ubuntu.

Cheers
Antoine