Hi Antoine,

Much improved!  That version seems to be working fine for me on ubuntu
10.04, and I no longer have the "stuck alt key" issue.  And it looks like
the terminals have more a native look to them as well.  This is great.

Now for my Mac, I followed the instructions at
http://winswitch.org/dev/macosx.html.  I replaced 0.0.7.19 with 0.0.7.21-rc2
where applicable, and chose to use python 2.6.6.  I completed the jhbuild
and gtk-osx steps as you indicated (they took a long time, but seemed to
succeed).  I then guessed that I still needed to do the xpra portion of the
"Build Protocol Support" section.  That seemed to work just fine as well.  I
noticed that it installed the xpra executable at ~/gtk/inst/bin/xpra, so I
updated my attach script to point to that.  I attached, and it starts fine.
 Looking good at this point.

I have one annoyance now, though.  On the Mac, I haven't found a way to
switch between the X windows using the keyboard.  Before, when I compiled
xpra and ran through X11, I was able to switch between X windows with
'Command-`' (while within the X11 application).  Other than that, I see no
difference from before except that the running application is now "python"
rather than "X11".  I have to admit, I don't see what the extra hour or more
of setup time got me.  Should I expect a speed improvement?  If there is no
compelling reason to stick with this, I expect I will switch back to running
in X11 so that I can switch between windows without the mouse.  Ironically,
I was hoping that a "native version of xpra" would allow me to switch
between X windows with the native Mac 'Command-tab' keys, but instead I lost
what was working.

Overall, the 'stuck key' fix removes a significant issue.  Good work!
Matt



On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Antoine Martin <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> (snip)
> > It appears to 'xpra start :7' ok, with some scary messages
> (..)
> Most of these messages are normal, there is one strange thing though:
> your system seems to report that randr is enabled on the Xvfb screen!?
> That is only meant to be possible when using Xdummy in place of Xvfb.
> What distro and version are you using? What package does Xvfb come from?
> Can you start an Xvfb display and see if xrandr really is listed as a
> supported extension?
>
> (snip)
> > Then I try to attach with 'xpra attach :7', and nothing shows up.
> > The log, however, shows an actual python stack trace (see [3])
> That's the code trying to use randr and finding out that it isn't
> available the hard way... I've just updated the source to cope with this
> situation better (it will just continue using a screen that is bigger
> than needed - which is fine):
> http://winswitch.org/src/xpra-0.0.7.21-rc2.tar.bz2
>
> > I plan to just compile the same xpra-0.0.7.20 source on my Mac
> (snip)
> If you want a native version of xpra (one that does not use the X11
> server), you should be able to follow the instructions found here:
> http://winswitch.org/dev/macosx.html
> All you need from this page is the jhbuild section + gtk-osx
> Or if you don't mind running via an X server, you can just build
> directly from the source I linked above (does not work with trunk).
> Note that the code assumes that you don't want to build the server on
> OSX, since there are very few useful apps you could actually run on it.
> I've never even tried to build the server on OSX (although it should be
> possible).
>
> > It felt like we were talking about application Foo and the page was
> > for downloading application Bar
> Yes, sorry about that, I should have made it clearer: the repository
> includes xpra packages and you don't have to install the rest if you
> don't want to.
>
> Cheers
> Antoine
>
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