[winswitch] Chrome Fullscreen: ESC vs. F11 and Debugging Issue

wuebbel at gmail.com wuebbel at gmail.com
Thu Dec 26 12:08:43 GMT 2019


HI, 

 

I installed xpra3.04 on an Ubuntu 18.04 headless workstation from the
xpra.org repository. Installation went more or less smoothly (after spending
an hour without any result on the versions supplied in the Ubuntu archives).
Xpra was started as a service automatically, the html5 client was available
with minimal configuration.

 

I came upon two issues, none of them critical, which I would like to share:

 

1.	I had an authorization issue on installation (my fault). I tried to
debug it using debug=all in /etc/default/xpra. The good thing: I found my
error. The bad thing: debug=all logs full passwords to the system log
(prefixed by authenticate_check). While I understand that debug=all means
debug=all, I was surprised by that behavior (and consequently had to change
my password).
2.	I use Chrome for Windows to access the html5 version of xpra.
When clicking the Fullscreen-Button on the xpra desktop, Chrome goes
fullscreen and displays "Press Escape to exit Fullscreen" (german locale).
Escape is probably the worst choice for X11 fullscreen when you are an
addicted vi user. Works, but as soon as I want to leave edit mode in vi,
xpra leaves fullscreen mode.

*However* - when using the Fullscreen Button in Chrome's Settings Menu (near
"Zoom"), it goes Fullscreen and displays "Press F11 to exit Fullscreen", and
F11 is a great choice. This fullscreen mode works perfect, Escape is just a
normal key.

I have no idea whatsoever why Chrome would support two different exit keys
for Fullscreen, depending on where the fullscreen was started from. Is there
any way of replicating the Chrome Menu-Behavior for the
xpra-fullscreen-button?

 

Best wishes, Frank

 




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