[winswitch] Q: how to attach to remote Xpra session through SSH with password auth.?

Dmitry Smirnov onlyjob at member.fsf.org
Fri Nov 2 23:07:59 GMT 2012


> Thanks, I've updated the man page:
> https://www.xpra.org/trac/changeset/1995
> 

Thank you.

> > At the moment one can tell that remote Xpra session do not exist only
> > from prior experience (which I'm lacking as well because I usually
> > connect to session that is running). As you can see the attempt to
> > connect to non-
> > 
> > existent session gives two errors:
> > 	bash: .xpra/run-xpra: No such file or directory
> > 	
> > 	cannot write using ['ssh', '-T', 'HOST']:
> > 		the SSH process has terminated with exit code=127
> > 
> > neither of which is clear about the real issue (cause).
> 
> I will try to do something about that.
> 

That would a valuable improvement, thank you.

Simplest thing to do might be just to print an additional message

	"Hint: session is not running?"

or

	"Can't attach to running session."

or similar after in order to provide a clue/suggestion where the problem might 
be.

Regards,
Dmitry.



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