starting a new email thread, since the old one's subject was invalid and the use of OWA was messing up the quoting. Sorry for the trouble.
Background: * I have one desktop PC at work with Ubuntu on it and a Windows laptop * /home is an NFS mount and uses NIS * I'd like to have the desktop start an Xpra desktop as a systemd service so that I can both access it from the same desktop and from the laptop when working from home * Ideally it would auto-connect to the existing desktop in the event of power failure or planned maintenance where my desktop PC is powered down when I'm not in the office * I've tried following the ArchLinux wiki on setting Xpra up as a service without success Here's my /etc/systemd/system/xpra@.service file: [Unit] Description=Xpra Remote Desktop After=syslog.target network.target nfs-home.mount gdm.service [Service] Type=simple User=%i EnvironmentFile=/etc/conf.d/xpra Environment="XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=~/.local" ExecStart=/usr/bin/xpra --no-daemon --bind-tcp=0.0.0.0:10000 --socket- dir=~/.xpra start-desktop --start=startxfce4 ${%i} [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target I enabled the service using 'sudo systemctl enable xpra@myusername.service' The results are as follows: * The Xpra process is running, as shown by 'ps aux | grep xpra' * I cannot simply run 'xpra attach' on the same desktop PC. It reports that no live Xpra sessions are running * I CAN attach to it when explicitly specifying the tcp port by 'xpra attach tcp:localhost:10000' * I cannot attach to it from the Windows laptop Here's the relevant logging from syslog. It complains of XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not being set despite trying to do so within the system unit. Apparently that's not working properly. The ownership of /run is root:root with 755 permissions. Not sure if that needs to be changed for xpra to create the socket there, though using '--socket- dir=~/.xpra' does allow it to create it under my home directory. Apr 19 12:57:00 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:00,179 Warning: failed to create socket directory '/run/user/10345/xpra' Apr 19 12:57:00 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:00,179 [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/run/user/10345/xpra' Apr 19 12:57:00 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:00,301 Warning: some of the sockets are in an unknown state: Apr 19 12:57:00 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:00,301 /home/myusername/.xpra/l-myusername.avnera.com-2 Apr 19 12:57:00 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:00,301 please wait as we allow the socket probing to timeout Apr 19 12:57:06 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:06,346 created unix domain socket: /home/myusername/.xpra/l- myusername.avnera.com-2 Apr 19 12:57:06 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:06,346 Warning: cannot create socket '/run/user/10345/xpra/l- myusername.avnera.com-2': Apr 19 12:57:06 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:06,346 [Errno 2] No such file or directory Apr 19 12:57:06 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:06,347 ($XDG_RUNTIME_DIR has not been created?) Apr 19 12:57:06 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:06,347 cannot create group socket '/run/xpra/l-myusername.avnera.com-2' Apr 19 12:57:06 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:06,347 [Errno 13] Permission denied Apr 19 12:57:06 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:06,355 user 'myusername' is a member of groups: adm, cdrom, sudo, dip, plugdev, lpadmin, sambashare, xpra, eng Apr 19 12:57:06 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:06,355 permissions on directory /run/xpra: 0775 Apr 19 12:57:06 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:06,355 ownership root:xpra Apr 19 12:57:07 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:07,038 pointer device emulation using XTest Apr 19 12:57:07 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:07,112 serving html content from: /usr/share/xpra/www Apr 19 12:57:10 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:10,518 OpenGL is supported on display ':2' Apr 19 12:57:10 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:10,519 using 'llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0, 256 bits)' renderer Apr 19 12:57:10 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:10,860 D-Bus notification forwarding is available Apr 19 12:57:11 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:11,989 Warning: webcam forwarding is disabled Apr 19 12:57:11 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:11,989 the virtual video directory '/sys/devices/virtual/video4linux' was not found Apr 19 12:57:11 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:11,989 make sure that the 'v4l2loopback' kernel module is installed and loaded Apr 19 12:57:11 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:11,989 found 0 virtual video devices for webcam forwarding Apr 19 12:57:12 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:12,042 pulseaudio server started with pid 3213 Apr 19 12:57:12 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:12,043 private server socket path: Apr 19 12:57:12 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:12,043 '/home/myusername/.local/xpra/pulse-2/pulse/native' Apr 19 12:57:12 l-myusername xpra[2562]: W: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. Apr 19 12:57:13 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:13,274 GStreamer version 1.14.4 for Python 2.7.15 64-bit Apr 19 12:57:13 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:13,705 xpra GTK2 X11 desktop version 2.5.1-r22431 64-bit Apr 19 12:57:13 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:13,707 uid=10345 (myusername), gid=1001 (eng) Apr 19 12:57:13 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:13,707 running with pid 2562 on Linux Ubuntu 18.10 cosmic Apr 19 12:57:13 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:13,707 connected to X11 display :2 with 24 bit colors Apr 19 12:57:13 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:13,708 :2.0 (2167x1084 mm - DPI: 96x95) Apr 19 12:57:13 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:13,708 monitor 2 Apr 19 12:57:13 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:13,919 xpra is ready. Apr 19 12:57:52 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:52,520 printer forwarding enabled using postscript and pdf Apr 19 12:57:52 l-myusername xpra[2562]: /usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :2 Apr 19 12:57:53 l-myusername xpra[2562]: 2019-04-19 12:57:53,695 15.6GB of system memory Apr 19 12:57:53 l-myusername xpra[2562]: gpg-agent[4015]: WARNING: " --write-env-file" is an obsolete option - it has no effect Apr 19 12:57:54 l-myusername xpra[2562]: gpg-agent: a gpg-agent is already running - not starting a new one Apr 19 12:57:54 l-myusername xpra[2562]: sh: 1: /usr/bin/nvidia- settings: not found Apr 19 12:57:54 l-myusername xpra[2562]: exception: Failed to open /etc/mpd.conf: Permission denied Apr 19 12:57:55 l-myusername xpra[2562]: Indicator stickynotes already running. _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk https://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users