[winswitch] First time install of xpra: black screen in all windows.

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Tue, 28 Sep 2021, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote:
> On 28/09/2021 18:07, G.W. Haywood via shifter-users wrote:
>> ...
>> https://lists.devloop.org.uk/pipermail/shifter-users/2021-September/002873.html 
>> ...
> 
> I think that opening an issue on github would be a better option:
> https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/new

Done.

> ...
> Answering the questions from the bug reporting guidelines:
> https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/wiki/Reporting-Bugs
> would got a long way towards identifying the source of the problem.

I did try

xpra bug-report

but I got a slew of error messages like this:

8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
piplus:~$ >>> xpra bug-report
Error collecting system bug report data using <function BugReport.setup_window.<locals>.get_sys_info at 0x7371ae80>
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/xpra/client/gtk_base/bug_report.py", line 288, in get_data
     value = value_cb()
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/xpra/client/gtk_base/bug_report.py", line 125, in get_sys_info
     "display"       : get_display_info(),
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/xpra/gtk_common/gtk_util.py", line 499, in get_display_info
     info["screens"] = get_screens_info()
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/xpra/gtk_common/gtk_util.py", line 242, in get_screens_info
     info[i] = get_screen_info(display, screen)
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/xpra/gtk_common/gtk_util.py", line 349, in get_screen_info
     fo = screen.get_font_options()
TypeError: Couldn't find foreign struct converter for 'cairo.FontOptions'
Warning: failed to import GStreamer 1.x:
  Namespace Gst not available
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------

and then no way that I could see to exit the process short of killing it.

Would you like to see a bug report about the bug report? :)

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73,
Ged.