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
