Oh, xpra and winswitch are the latest versions (available via yum)
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Neal Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm baffled. If I start emacs via xpra (using xdummy), it looks great. > If I start via winswitch it doesn't. It looks like it's set to a lower > resolution. > > Both clients and servers are fedora f17 linux. > > Within each of these emacs sessions, I ran xdpyinfo and xrandr. Both > outputs show no difference. I compared the two Xorg.:7.log, Xorg.:62.log, > and don't offhand see any significant diff (because of the timestamps, > comparing these files I just did visually). > > I have no ideas how to debug this. I'd like to use winswitch for the nice > features, but emacs under xpra looks beautiful while emacs under winswitch > looks bad. > > I was wrong about my guess that winswitch was not using xdummy. I see > that Xorg was started with the same command line in both cases. > > Any ideas? > > > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Antoine Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 01/04/2013 07:47 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >> > I have some info about 4. It seems if I use xpra directly, the server >> > started on the remote is using Xdummy driver, as per my xpra.conf. But >> > when started by winswitch, it is not. Any ideas? >> What versions have you got installed? What platform, distro, etc? >> Old versions used to try to make xpra use Xdummy explicitly by >> specifying the Xvfb command to use. But this is no longer the case, and >> when winswitch launches xpra it will use the same configuration file as >> when used from the command line? >> >> > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Neal Becker <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> 4. emacs started manually on remote using xpra looks much nicer than >> emacs >> >> started via winswitch. I could send screenshots. >> Quality is encoding related, it is quite possible that winswitch uses a >> different encoding by default. Try holding launching your commands via >> the full "Start Application" dialog, or by holding the "Shift" key as >> you select the application from the start menu, these dialogs allow you >> to select the encoding quality. >> Or just compare once launched in the xpra tray menu. >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Neal Becker <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Trying out latest on Fedora 17. >> >>> >> >>> 1. Which way to configure Xorg? Right now I'm trying xvfb with the >> dummy >> >>> driver: >> >>> xvfb=/usr/bin/Xorg-nosuid -dpi 96 -noreset -nolisten tcp +extension >> GLX >> >>> +extension RANDR +extension RENDER -logfile >> >>> ${HOME}/.xpra/Xorg.${DISPLAY}.log -config /etc/xpra/xorg.conf >> /etc/xpra.conf >> Should have examples for both Xvfb and Xdummy. What is enabled depends >> on your distro. If Xdummy is not chosen, chances are that your distro is >> too old to support it adequately. >> >> >>> This seems to look nice on emacs. But I wonder if this is the "best" >> >>> option? One thing is, it seems RANDR extension is reported as >> missing. >> >>> For example, running xrandr --verbose from within emacs reports that. >> As per: >> http://xpra.org/Xdummy.html >> Xdummy is the way forward and there are a number of unfixable bugs when >> using Xvfb without randr. >> >> >>> 2. winswitch works, but if I try to start a remote desktop session it >> >>> works with xpra, but not NX. I believe it said something about ssh >> server >> >>> not forwarding? >> Details please. Platform, versions, etc. Log files? >> >> >>> 3. In winswitch, if I try to start a different size desktop session, >> it >> >>> does not change size. Probably related to RANDR missing? >> What protocol are you using for your desktop session? NX? VNC? Xpra? >> >> Cheers >> Antoine >> >> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > shifter-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> shifter-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users >> > > _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
