[winswitch] Loss of focus and screen refresh when switching between work spaces

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 01:09:49AM +0700, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote:
>On 05/01/17 00:20, Christopher Faylor via shifter-users wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am running xpra on a Fedora 24 system, using it to run "pidgin" so
>> that I can keep the client alive between home and work.  pidgin consists
>> of two windows:  a Buddy window and the main chat window which has multiple
>> tabs for different conversations.  I run pidgin on a Gentoo system on
>> workspace 2.  The xpra version is: xpra-1.0-2.fc24.armv7hl .
>> 
>> The Gentoo system is running xpra-0.17.6.
>What is your desktop environment?

Gentoo xfce.

>> My problem is that, whenever I switch away from the workspace, the chat
>> window stops updating and I lose the ability to type anything in it when
>> I switch back.
>Sounds like the code detects the change in workspace but not the switch
>back to that workspace.
>You may have to create a ticket so we can fix this.

Opened.  Ticket #1396.

>You can try running the client with "-d workspace" to get more
>information. ("-d window" may also have some extra details)

Attached to ticket.

>> The buddy window still remains active and, in fact, when selecting the
>> chat window, anything I type goes to the buddy window.  I do have things
>> set up so that the buddy window doesn't show anything on the taskbar.  I
>> only have the chat window icon on the taskbar.
>> 
>> If I toggle the "OpenGL" setting from the Xpra icon I can get back
>> proper behavior in the chat window until the next time I switch from the
>> workspace.
>Toggling OpenGL will re-create the window, which will also re-map it.
>It effectively re-starts from scratch.

Right.

>Does minimizing the window and then unminimizing it also fix things?

Actually, the window won't minimize.  It blinks and maintains the same behavior.

Using XFCE's "fullscreen" mode, seemed to make it work once, though.
The second attempt resulted in a black screen.  Reconnecting to the
server got it back.

cgf