On 24/04/15 23:28, basd wrote: > Antoine, thank you for replies. I think I am making "progress". Studying > winswitch/xpra/vnc/etc. > has been highly educational on multiple levels. I'm really impressed with > the way Winswitch checks > for multiple OS setups and adjusts for their various differences. > > 1. I repackaged xpra and winswitch on the opSU machine I am running it on. > Did not solve any > problems, but at least I know I don't have version conflicts (and solved the > libwebp5 issue). > > 2. I think the desktop session problem is authentication, as the vncserver > session starts and then > immediately closes. How difficult would it be for me to temporarily change > the code so that the call > to vncserver is the same as I would run manually? Eg., vncserver -name xxx > (and I guess port), > thereby using my existing passwd file for authentication? I see from the > from the console output > winswitch makes a similar call, but is setting up a session password file, > etc. in the ~/.winswitch > directory. Should be quite easy I would think, just hardcode it for testing.
> 3. Good to know I don't need AppIndicator -- thanks for this info. > > 4. Re: crashing the server desktop: I think Xpra is "covering up" my X > session and not actually > crashing it -- I get a white screen. My recovery is to hit <ctrl><alt><del>, > which brings up the > KDE logout prompt (even though I can't see it, but sometimes it flickers to > the surface > momentarily). Then I hit <enter> which does a clean logout to the kdm login > screen. Existing > vncserver sessions are still active when I log back in and so is Winswitch. > (This is on the server > and not on the client -- not sure why Xpra would be putting anything at all > on the server screen ...) Then you should be able to kill the process that is covering the screen from an ssh session or from another VT. > 5. I have two opSU 13.2 computers running winswitch/xpra. Both of them > consistently serve xpra > applications without problems (but not desktop sessions). Something changed > for the better from > 13.1 to 13.2. > > It will be great to get this running on Android. I like to travel with my > phone only, which > connected to a keyboard and hotel tv gives me complete access to my servers > and a full "desktop" > computer. The android port really needs work, and I don't have much time for it... Cheers Antoine _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
