I just started using xpra recently as I've gotten to where nomachine's inability to consistently reconnect to sessions upon link loss was too unbearable.
For the most part xpra is working very well, at least it has always been able to reconnect to an existing session without any problems. I have encountered 3 usability issues with xpra however. 1) Strange behavior when running with Nvidia's twinview. An xpra window will be running fine until I move it another monitor. After that the menus are all out of place and mouse clicks no longer go to the right places. Killing the xpra connection and starting it up again allows me to resume work normally however (until I forget and move them though). This issue I've worked around by using xpra in a local nomachine stripped down xfce session. 2) Minor issue, weird sloppy focus mouse behavior behavior. I've noticed this both with xfwm and metacity. Focus follow mouse works some of the time, but quite often it stops working and I have to click on the title bar of the window in question to gain focus. For my regular local (non xpra) windows sloppy focus follows mouse always works. Like I said, this is a very minor issue, and one I could easily live with. 3) Jerkiness and frequent momentary stalling, which appears to the be issue mentioned here: http://partiwm.org/browser/README.xpra#L214 With a VTE like xfce's terminal, I don't notice any problems. However, I use Geany http://www.geany.org/ quite bit and it seems to frequently exhibit the stalling and not responding for a few seconds issue. With nomachine I did not have this issue. I'm curring trying my stripped down xfce nomachine session on the remote machine under a different user so that I can easily kill -9 -1 as that user if my nomachine connection is broken. This seems to have alleviated most, if not all of the jerkiness. Due to xpra's reliability in reconnecting to an existing session after a loss of connection, I'll think take this hybrid solution over a pure nomachine setup. If these issues were solved though, I'd just as soon ditch nomachine as xpra by itself is so much simpler. ~Dwight _______________________________________________ Parti-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.partiwm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/parti-discuss
