[winswitch] OS X El Capitan cannot run Xpra

[Antoine Martin]

On 28/10/15 02:00, Ryan Orendorff wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been trying to run xpra on a computer that had a fresh install of El Capitan, but have not been able to get the application to launch thus far. When I try to run with the current release, I get the following.
>
>>   /Volumes/Xpra/Xpra.app/Contents/MacOS/Xpra attach ssh:url:21
> 2015-10-27 11:54:21,052 xpra gtk2 client version 0.15.7 (r10824)
> dyld: Library not loaded: /Users/osx/gtk/inst/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.0.dylib
>   Referenced from: /Volumes/Xpra/Xpra.app/Contents/Helpers/gst-plugin-scanner
>   Reason: image not found
>
> I saw there was a ticket that included the library not being found (ticket #984), and that this had been fixed in the beta releases. So I tried the newest beta release that I could find that had a revision number higher than 10885 (a fix was specified to be in versions after this). 
There are newer builds now, but I've been told there is still an issue
with those.
>> xpra attach ssh:url:21
> 2015-10-27 11:46:12,964 Xpra gtk2 client version 0.16.0-r11058
> 2015-10-27 11:46:12,965  running on Mac OSX
>
> If I then kill the xpra process, I get some standard output I would expect before it closes.
>
> got signal SIGTERM, exiting
> 2015-10-27 11:46:19,228 OpenGL_accelerate module loaded
> 2015-10-27 11:46:19,233 OpenGL enabled with ATI Radeon HD 6750M OpenGL Engine
> 2015-10-27 11:46:19,260  using default keyboard settings
> 2015-10-27 11:46:19,267  desktop size is 4480x1440 with 1 screen(s):
> 2015-10-27 11:46:19,267   nerv.local (1580x508 mm - DPI: 72x72)
> 2015-10-27 11:46:19,267     monitor 1 2560x1440 at 1920x0 (903x508 mm - DPI: 72x72)
> 2015-10-27 11:46:19,267     monitor 2 1920x1200 at 0x200 (677x423 mm - DPI: 72x72)
> 2015-10-27 11:46:19,268  scaled using 1.5 x 1.5 to:
> 2015-10-27 11:46:19,268   nerv.local (1580x508 mm - DPI: 48x48)
> 2015-10-27 11:46:19,268     monitor 1 1706x960 at 1280x0 (903x508 mm - DPI: 47x48)
> 2015-10-27 11:46:19,268     monitor 2 1280x800 at 0x133 (677x423 mm - DPI: 48x48)
>
> What also confuses me is that I have another machine that I upgraded to El Capitan (so from Yosemite -> El Capitan), and xpra works in those conditions (using the same binary I used in Yosemite). I tried transferring that binary to my fresh install machine but xpra fails to run.
>From what I have heard (TBC), maybe you had accepted to trust the
application before the OS upgrade, but you don't have this option on a
fresh "El Capitan" install.
> Have you guys noticed this problem?
Yes,
The ticket that you found is where progress is being tracked:
http://xpra.org/trac/ticket/984
I am hoping that smo can chime in, he's been looking into this.

Cheers
Antoine

>
> Best,
> Ryan
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