Hi there, Following up to the list to close the thread.
In #3288 on Fri, 1 Oct 2021, Antoine Martin via shifter-users wrote:
... apt-get install lots of packages ...
When I originally installed xpra I lost count after about 250. :/
... For good measure, I then dusted off an older rpi ... ... With this one, I do get the black window bug. There is one obvious warning sticking out every time there's a missing screen update: `Couldn't find foreign struct converter for 'cairo.Context'`. Easily fixed by installing the cairo bindings: `sudo apt-get install python3-gi-cairo`. This dependency is usually installed automatically ...
Apparently it wasn't amongst the three hundred or so modules which were installed when I originally did all this. :(
I'll update the build instructions to include this package ...
That would be good. :) A simple client:~# apt-get install python3-gi-cairo was all that was needed, although I have to say I have no idea how I would ever have known that this was the magic incantation. The names of modules seem to be conjured from some mystical hat. Anyway I typed server:~$ xpra start --start=xterm :221 client:~$ xpra attach ssh://server/221 (221 is the number of attempts that I'd made to get a working xterm:) and the xterm came up fine. The response to 'ls' to list a directory was *fast*, so I ran mplayer to watch a video clip of Bosco (one of my dogs, now long dead) eating treats on the sofa at 640x480. No need to mess about with XAUTHORITY, nor anything like that. :) 25 frames/sec seemed a bit of a, er, stretch for the Pi, but if I tell you that after the upgrade to Debian Buster with VNC I was struggling to get *one* *frame* *per* *five* *seconds* you'll understand what an improvement this is. Obviously I'll need to check out quite a lot of things while I set up my remote desktop but this looks very promising. Thanks very much once again Antoine. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk https://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users