-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi Nathaniel,
Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Antoine Martin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just tried to run the simple xterm server-side example and ran into this >> error: >> # xinit /bin/sh -c "xterm & $RUN" -- /usr/bin/Xvfb $USE_DISPLAY >> +extension Composite -ac -noreset > > Are you hoping to run parti, or xpra? Either, I was just toying with this. > Currently you are running parti, but I don't know why you would want > to run parti against Xvfb. (parti is a traditional window manager -- > or the stub of what may someday become one -- and Xvfb is an X server > that does not display on the screen at all, so you can't interact with > it.) > > The ./try-parti script will automatically start parti against Xephyr, > which is a X server that displays inside a window in your existing X > session. Yes, that command line was stolen from ./try-parti IIRC. >> File "wimpiggy.lowlevel.bindings.pyx", line 423, in >> wimpiggy.lowlevel.bindings.XGetWindowProperty >> TypeError: exceptions must be strings, classes, or instances, not type > > That's... weird. The code itself appears correct. > > What version of Python and Pyrex are you using? pyrex-0.9.4.1 python-2.5.2-r7 > >> Note: I had to enable the Composite extension to get that far. > > Yes, parti and xpra require compositing support. The distributed > scripts should all take care of that automatically -- let me know if > you run into any problems with them -- but if you're setting up X > servers by hand you might need to do some tweaking of course. xpra just would not start using install/bin/xpra start :13 I eventually found some info in ~/.xpra/\:13.log "File not found" error (but not telling you which one;) The source told me it was xmodmap... And after installing it, xpra/Xvfb is now working fine. Will test it some more next week. Thanks Antoine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREKAAYFAkmKZ3IACgkQGK2zHPGK1rvI3ACfU/XjMf6MzPka/+74jgdAGLpy W5MAni577HP2Za8TgFilceZdUrwENVqy =91YG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Parti-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.partiwm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/parti-discuss
