[winswitch] xpra: unwanted messages

[Antoine Martin]

On 15/11/2019 20:09, Anthony Stone wrote:
> I believe that the messages occur whenever Ubuntu 18.04 creates a new
> workspace or deletes an empty one. Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't have a fixed
> array of workspaces, as 16.04 did. It creates a new one whenever a
> window is moved off the end of the current (linear) array of workspaces,
> and deletes a workspace when the sole window on that workspace is
> deleted or moved to a different workspace.
xpra will keep track of workspaces and try to preserve the workspace
each window is mapped on.

> Can the screen configuration message be suppressed for this case? I move
> windows between workspaces quite often, so I get a lot of these messages.
You could try to get Ubuntu to use a fixed number of workspaces.
This may prevent the screen reconfiguration message.

Antoine

PS: please keep the mailing list CCed.

> 
> Anthony
> 
> On 14/11/2019 03:53, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote:
>> On 14/11/2019 02:55, Anthony Stone via shifter-users wrote:
>>> Antoine,
>>>
>>> When I have an xpra connection between a local machine and a remote one,
>>> both running Ubuntu 18.04, I constantly receive messages like the ones
>>> below. They arrive many times an hour, sometimes several times a minute,
>>> and the message is always exactly the same and happens even in periods
>>> when the connection is live but inactive.
>> Something is changing your screen configuration and this is generating
>> this event.
>> If you can figure out what is doing that, we may be able to teach xpra
>> to ignore it.
>> Screen configuration changes are important, that's why they are always
>> logged.
>>
>>>
>>> Can these messages be suppressed?
>> Not at present, no.
>>> I suppose I could make xpra send
>>> everything to /dev/null, but then I would lose useful messages as well.
>> Right, there can always be useful messages there, best not to silence it
>> all.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Antoine
>>
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>> 2019-11-13 17:14:48,083 sending updated screen size to server: 1920x1080
>>> with 1 screens
>>> 2019-11-13 17:14:48,084   :0.0 (508x285 mm - DPI: 96x96) workarea:
>>> 1865x1053 at 55x27
>>> 2019-11-13 17:14:48,084     HDMI-1 (521x293 mm - DPI: 93x93)
>>> 2019-11-13 17:20:55,932 sending updated screen size to server: 1920x1080
>>> with 1 screens
>>> 2019-11-13 17:20:55,933   :0.0 (508x285 mm - DPI: 96x96) workarea:
>>> 1865x1053 at 55x27
>>> 2019-11-13 17:20:55,933     HDMI-1 (521x293 mm - DPI: 93x93)
>>> 2019-11-13 17:55:17,043 sending updated screen size to server: 1920x1080
>>> with 1 screens
>>> 2019-11-13 17:55:17,043   :0.0 (508x285 mm - DPI: 96x96) workarea:
>>> 1865x1053 at 55x27
>>> 2019-11-13 17:55:17,043     HDMI-1 (521x293 mm - DPI: 93x93)
>>> 2019-11-13 17:55:28,842 sending updated screen size to server: 1920x1080
>>> with 1 screens
>>> 2019-11-13 17:55:28,842   :0.0 (508x285 mm - DPI: 96x96) workarea:
>>> 1865x1053 at 55x27
>>> 2019-11-13 17:55:28,843     HDMI-1 (521x293 mm - DPI: 93x93)
>>> 2019-11-13 17:55:30,244 sending updated screen size to server: 1920x1080
>>> with 1 screens
>>> 2019-11-13 17:55:30,244   :0.0 (508x285 mm - DPI: 96x96) workarea:
>>> 1865x1053 at 55x27
>>> 2019-11-13 17:55:30,245     HDMI-1 (521x293 mm - DPI: 93x93)
>>> 2019-11-13 17:55:40,074 sending updated screen size to server: 1920x1080
>>> with 1 screens
>>> 2019-11-13 17:55:40,075   :0.0 (508x285 mm - DPI: 96x96) workarea:
>>> 1865x1053 at 55x27
>>> 2019-11-13 17:55:40,075     HDMI-1 (521x293 mm - DPI: 93x93)
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