[winswitch] Difficulty installing/running on Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
Antoine Martin
antoine at nagafix.co.uk
Wed Aug 7 11:20:15 BST 2013
On 07/08/13 12:45, Arthur Zey wrote:
>
> *The* menu, since there is only one on OSX, that big thing that
> always sits at the top left of your screen!
>
>
> I thought that might be what you meant, but there's nothing there.
Ah :(
>
> on OSX and Linux:
> .winswitch/
>
>
> A gzipped copy of that directory, which includes a few log files, is
> available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wog3aqyn2epn5z1/winswitch.tar.gz
Please run in debug mode to get more info in the logs (and make sure no
passwords are in them), preferably using:
winswitch_applet --debug-mode
or by setting debug=on in the applet config file.
>
> I noticed a few references to a VirtualBox virtual machine that I have
> installed (although I never told Windows-Switch about it, nor was the
> VM running at any point during or after the installation). I wonder if
> that could be causing some trouble. Could connected VNC sessions be
> messing with the installation? I also saw a reference to that.
The built-in server detected your virtualbox sessions and will expose
them to *clients* connected to this machine as a *server*.
This should not interfere with anything, but just in case you can
disable it in the config file:
server/protocols/virtualbox.conf
or by running with:
--without-virtualbox
>
> Let me know where the right place would be to file a ticket if neither
> you nor anybody else on this thread can help with the log/config files.
http://winswitch.org/trac/
Cheers
Antoine
>
> Thank you yet again!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Arthur Zey
> Arthur at DeltaWerx.com <mailto:Arthur at DeltaWerx.com>
> 213-915-6442
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk
> <mailto:antoine at nagafix.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> On 07/08/13 12:13, Arthur Zey wrote:
>> Antoine, thank you for your fast response!
>>
>> You should install the mDNS bits, without those you will have
>> to connect to your server by IP address which is tedious (and
>> often changes between restarts).
>> With mdns correctly installed, your client will see your
>> server appear on the network and connect to it automatically.
>>
>>
>> I'm not worried about that--I have a dynamic DNS updater on my
>> router, a static local IP address, and appropriate port
>> forwarding (already configured for SSH on an alternative port).
>>
>> Do you see anything in the global application menu?
>> There should be options there for connecting to servers and
>> starting apps.
>>
>>
>> Forgive me, but what is the "global application menu"? I have not
>> come across that yet. (The dock icon has no application-specific
>> options, left- or right-clicking.)
> *The* menu, since there is only one on OSX, that big thing that
> always sits at the top left of your screen!
>
>>
>> You may want to file a ticket and add your log files.
>>
>>
>> What's the best way to do that. Where are the log files, and how
>> can I access them?
> on OSX and Linux:
> .winswitch/
>
> Antoine
>
>
>>
>> Thanks again for however you can help.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Arthur Zey
>> Arthur at DeltaWerx.com <mailto:Arthur at DeltaWerx.com>
>> 213-915-6442 <tel:213-915-6442>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Antoine Martin
>> <antoine at nagafix.co.uk <mailto:antoine at nagafix.co.uk>> wrote:
>>
>> On 07/08/13 06:00, Arthur Zey wrote:
>>
>> Please forgive the elementary nature of this question,
>> but most of my
>> previous experience has been in Windows, and only about a
>> year ago have I
>> started really getting into Linux (Ubuntu), and only just
>> within the last
>> few weeks have I consistently started using a Mac as my
>> primary computer.
>>
>> I've installed Windows-Switch on my Ubuntu 13.04 machine
>> according to the
>> instructions here:
>> https://winswitch.org/downloads/debian-repository.html?dist_select=raring
>>
>> I followed up by running "sudo apt-get install xpra
>> python-wimpiggy" (since
>> "sudo apt-get upgrade" indicated that those packages
>> could be upgraded, but
>> it wouldn't do it automatically) before launching
>> Windows-Switch from the
>> application launcher (which I assume I won't have to do
>> in the future,
>> since it'll launch automatically on startup, right?),
>>
>> It should, though desktop environment changes can break things.
>> (and Ubuntu in particular)
>>
>> and it went through
>> the initial run process. I got a few error messages
>> (something about having
>> to do SSH tunneling and something about what I think was
>> related to
>> automatic discovery of clients), but I'm not worried
>> about that quite yet.
>>
>> You should install the mDNS bits, without those you will have
>> to connect to your server by IP address which is tedious (and
>> often changes between restarts).
>> With mdns correctly installed, your client will see your
>> server appear on the network and connect to it automatically.
>>
>> (Eventually, the program I expect to be using through
>> this is Pidgin, but I
>> don't have that up and running on this computer yet.) The
>> point is that,
>> unlike what I'll describe below on the Mac, the Ubuntu
>> machine properly
>> places a Windows-Switch icon in the Ubuntu equivalent of
>> a system tray, as
>> pictured here: https://winswitch.org/documentation/start.html
>>
>> The problem I'm having is on my primary laptop (which I
>> ultimately want to
>> display the Pidgin process). I followed the instructions
>> for Intel-based
>> Macs here: http://winswitch.org/downloads/
>>
>> (My computer is a MacBook Pro Retina, running 10.8.4 on a
>> 2.4 GHz Intel
>> Core i7--is there any other information that would be
>> diagnostically
>> relevant?)
>>
>> That should be enough.
>>
>> During the installation, I dragged the icon into the
>> Applications folder,
>> then launched it. After clicking "Open" on the obligatory
>> are-you-sure-because-this-was-downloaded-from-the-interwebs!
>> message, it
>> put an icon on my dock and briefly displayed a
>> notification saying that it
>> was setting some stuff up for first use (like it did on
>> the Ubuntu
>> machine). However, it does not create an icon in my
>> "system tray", as I
>> expected (and as is pictured here:
>> https://winswitch.org/documentation/start.html ).
>>
>> Those screenshots are out of date for OSX, newer versions use
>> the global menu to interact with the application instead of a
>> tray icon.
>>
>> Instead, the dock icon
>> remains with a little light underneath it indicating that
>> it's currently
>> running. Clicking on the dock icon for Window-Switch does
>> nothing, nor does
>> it have any windows associated with it.
>>
>> Do you see anything in the global application menu?
>> There should be options there for connecting to servers and
>> starting apps.
>>
>> Quitting and restarting the process
>> makes no difference; neither does uninstalling and
>> reinstalling it (which,
>> on a Mac, I understand is accomplished merely by sending
>> the item to Trash
>> from the Applications folder, then re-copying it from the
>> downloaded image).
>>
>> Correct.
>>
>>
>> Could anyone shed some light and help me figure this out,
>> please?
>>
>> I haven't tested on OSX for a while.
>> You may want to file a ticket and add your log files.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Antoine
>>
>>
>> Thank you so very much in advance!
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Arthur Zey
>> Arthur at DeltaWerx.com <mailto:Arthur at DeltaWerx.com>
>> 213-915-6442 <tel:213-915-6442>
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