On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 22:21 +0000, Ben Sferrazza wrote: > FYI: whatever email client you are using, it is messing up the inline > quoting. > > I believe this has something to do with my company filtering emails > that originate from an external source and processing them with added > text.
Actually seems to be the fact that I was using the Outlook Web App in Linux. Now using Evolution. > > On 12/04/2019 21:33, Ben Sferrazza via shifter-users wrote: > > On 12/04/2019 05:47, Ben Sferrazza via shifter-users wrote: > > > > I'm running Xpra 2.5 from the Xpra repo on Ubuntu 18.10. The > > > > client is Xpra 3.0 on Windows 10. Using 'xpra shadow' works > > > > well, but I can't get 'xpra start-desktop' to work. It merely > > > > shows a black screen. > > > xpra start-desktop on its own will only start an empty full- > > > window > > > session, you need to start a window manager or some other > > > application to > > > interact with, ie for testing: > > > xpra start-desktop --start=xterm > > > Then you can start a window manager or something else from the > > > xterm > > I'm sorry, I should have mentioned I used --start=gnome-session. > Well, there is your problem. > Try a different window manager, or as per above just an xterm, and > you > will find that things work just fine. > gnome is known to be problematic and may not work without an > accelerated > X11 server. > > OK, ideally wouldn't want to change window managers, but am willing > to give that a try. FYI, I use NIS for login with an NFS mounted > /home directory. I had setup Xpra (successfully) on our Linux servers > that run an old version of CentOS. Now I am attempting to get Xpra to > work on my work PC where I just installed Ubuntu 18.10. There must be > some stale data/configs that could cause issues, as I'm still using > the same /home directory as before. I say that, because after trying > to unsuccessfully get Xpra to work with this Ubuntu install, I went > back just to see how things were working with the setup I had on the > CentOS Linux servers and it was no longer working. Do you have any > suggestions on files/directories to remove to start fresh? ~/.xpra > being an obvious one I suppose. removing ~/.xpra, ~/.local/xpra, and ~/.local/run/xpra seemed to do the trick. At least I can start a gnome-session and have a visible desktop (no more black screen). However, nothing happens on keyboard input and mouse input seems limited. I'll keep debugging. > > > > > Similarly, trying to just launch a window such as 'xpra > > > > start=gnome-terminal' shows nothing. 'xpra start=xterm' does > > > > bring up xterm, but trying to launch something like gnome- > > > > terminal from that xterm shows nothing. Verbose logs don't seem > > > > to indicate anything is amiss. > > > > Any advice on things I can try? > > > That's odd. I've just tried it and it worked fine. > > > Please create a ticket as per: > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__xpra.org_trac_wiki_ReportingBugs&d=DwICAg&c=VYRDWu-sKuQrybEAJ2u-dYX_FK6X1lTrDf-PKXUa2P4&r=KUvBUvwZ3xYCa05A5NCXRUdX-yDQhrA_pjQ6in6O-IFVY81yykI4UK_bEOyPBhCw&m=1ry-QExQgmmOByMBK9tpR2G3ZKgDb6cFzeCl0ABhIZQ&s=H_oJFXMfp3dShpPBsIt50P_P-XOlWG2VTdPmK-O66JY&e= > > > Make sure to include "xpra info". > > > And please try connecting from another client (ie: from the > > > Ubuntu > > > system itself) to figure out if the problem is server side or > > > client side. > > > > OK I'll go ahead and do that. I also forgot to mention that I tried > > connecting from the Ubuntu localhost and it also just shows a black > > screen. So it would seem to indicate there's something up with the > > server. > Or with gnome-terminal. > > Cheers, > Antoine _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk https://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
