[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:
>
>>>> 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)

a bit confusing how come 4K (3840x2169) screen is 16 times smaller
than 1K (1920x1080), 4 times, I guess. Oh I would have said Full HD
instead of 1K (my mistake).

> 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.

This is not what is happening. I want to capture in 4K from the
virtual X fb server in the server while rendering in FullHD (1080) in
the client's machine for interaction purpose.

>>>>>>>>> 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.

That means Xdummy is ruled out in the Ubuntu's case. So rely on xvfb, Right?

Wbr,
/z


>
> Cheers
> Antoine
>