[winswitch] Downgrading xpra

[Wolfram Humann]

Do you expect a release in the near future so I can try out the fix from
r23459 <https://xpra.org/trac/changeset/23459/xpra>?
Or is it fairly safe to install a 3.0 beta? (Can I use a 2.5.3 server on
RHEL7 with a 3.0 windows client? -- if I understand correctly, the fix is
just in the client???)

Best regards
Wolfram

On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 16:20, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk> wrote:

> Can you please re-send to the mainling list?
>
> Antoine
>
> On 01/08/2019 20:54, Wolfram Humann wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply. Some observations:
> > 1. I managed to install 1.0.13 doing "sudo yum --releasever=7.1 install
> > xpra" (had to manually install python-crypto before it would work but
> > that's all)
> > I had tried something similar before editing winswitch.repo and
> > replacing
> > "baseurl=http://winswitch.org/dists/CentOS/$releasever/$basearch/" with
> > "baseurl=http://winswitch.org/dists/CentOS/7.1/$basearch/" but to my
> > surprise yum still wanted to install version 2.5.3 (and failed as
> > mentioned before when I tried to force yum to install 1.0.13)
> >
> > 2. I have a Konsole window receiving lots of output from a program and
> > therefore scrolling fast. In 1.0.13 there is no problem with that. In
> > 2.5.3 it always hangs a bit between screen updates. Also in 2.5.3 I
> > sometimes receive messages about my connection being slow with some
> > options what to do about it. I've never seen those in 1.0.13
> >
> > 3. In 2.5.3 when I have menus hitting the bottom of the screen, I will
> > have a vertical offset between the mouse-pointer and the selected entry
> > (see attached screenshots -- the mouse pointer is 6-7 entries higher
> > than the selection). That does not happen in 1.0.13. It might be worth
> > mentioning that I have an (unusual?) setup of one horizontal (main)
> > monitor and one vertical on the left, so there are screen coordinates on
> > the left monitor extending below and above the main screen.
> >
> > If you have any suggestions, I can go back to 2.5.3. and try them out.
> > But I will be on vacation for one week starting tomorrow, so I would do
> > that afterwards.
> >
> > Thanks for maintaining and supporting this nice and very useful piece of
> > software!
> > Wolfram
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 19:17, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk
> > <mailto:antoine at nagafix.co.uk>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 31/07/2019 20:41, Wolfram Humann via shifter-users wrote:
> >     > I've been using xpra 1.0.x before on an older workstation and
> >     2.5.3 on the
> >     > current workstation. My impression is that the old version was
> running
> >     > smoother and had less network problems.
> >     That's possible but it would be extremely surprising.
> >     There are no "network problems" that I am aware of.
> >
> >     > That may be true or not!! I just
> >     > wanted to try it out. So I yum remove-ed the current version and
> some
> >     > dependencies and tried
> >     > sudo yum install xpra-1.0.13
> >     > and got
> >     > Loaded plugins: langpacks, search-disabled-repos
> >     > RHEL7-ATE_Workstation_tools
> >     (..)
> >     > Error: Package: xpra-1.0.13-1.r21370.el7_6.x86_64 (winswitch)
> >     >            Requires: libvpx.so.5()(64bit)
> >     >            Available: libvpx-xpra-1.7.0-1.el7_5.x86_64 (winswitch)
> >     >                libvpx.so.5()(64bit)
> >     >            Available: libvpx-xpra-1.7.0-1.el7_6.x86_64 (winswitch)
> >     >                libvpx.so.5()(64bit)
> >     >            Installing: libvpx-xpra-1.8.0-1.el7_6.x86_64 (winswitch)
> >     >               ~libvpx.so.6()(64bit)
> >     >  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
> >     >  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> >     >
> >     > What can I do?
> >     yum is not capable of figuring out which libvpx version it should be
> >     installing, trying to install the latest one instead.
> >     That's a known issue with yum.
> >
> >     You may be able to install the old version by manually installing
> >     libvpx-1.7 first. If yum still tries to upgrade libvpx, you will
> have to
> >     hand pick the packages yourself..
> >
> >     Bear in mind that the 1.0 branch will be EOLed very soon.
> >     Personally, I wouldn't bother with it. Especially on RHEL 7.x, which
> can
> >     run newer versions very well.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >     Antoine
> >
> >     >
> >     > Best regards
> >     > Wolfram
> >
>
>