[winswitch] Black windows with Xpra, Docker and WIne
Craig Setera
craigjunk at setera.org
Thu Aug 5 02:12:37 BST 2021
Hello!
I'm in the midst of trying to get the Fitbit Simulator which is only
supported on Windows and MacOS using my Linux (Ubuntu latest) laptop.
While I started with
https://github.com/bingtimren/fitbit-simulator-linux-wine-image, I had
issues with the fact that my laptop is actually a HiDPI machine and the
resulting application was much too small. I remembered that I had seen
an example of using Xpra to scale a Linux desktop application and
decided to see if I could do the same with this. I set up a Docker
container to bind Xpra to a TCP Port and am attaching to that port from
the host port.
Unfortunately, I'm getting very inconsistent results. When it works,
things are properly scaled (by 2x) and work as I would expect. However,
many times, I end up with a completely black window. I've tried many
different combinations of options on both the container (server) side
and the attach side. I've tried to disable as much functionality as
possible as well. In the end, I'm just not getting a consistent
non-black display.
Can anyone suggest how to troubleshoot this issue? The fact that it
seems to work sometimes makes me feel like I'm close to a solution.
Thanks,
Craig
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