On 11/08/2019 21:21, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 12:14:42 +0700 Antoine Martin via shifter-users > <shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk> wrote: >> On 11/08/2019 03:55, Perry E. Metzger via shifter-users wrote: >>> Howdy! Several small questions about Xpra... >>> >>> 1) I note the latest Xpra is 2.5.3, but when I download a recent >>> copy for the mac, it claims to be v2.3.3-r20112. I find this a bit >>> confusing? >> I don't know which download link you are using but I have just >> verified and all the canonical names from the download page point >> to the correct version, which at this time is 2.5.3: >> https://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Download >> Maybe you have multiple DMG or PKG files with slightly different >> names? Also, MacOS is known to do some really weird things when you >> have multiple copies of the same application on the same filesystem. >> You can see the download link for individual versions by browsing >> here: http://xpra.org/dists/MacOS/x86_64/ > > Is it possible that installing a new version of the .pkg file fails > if the /Application is already installed? I downloaded the .pkg, > installed it, got the same result. I downloaded the .dmg, copied it > over, and all is fine. I may try some experiments with this later. That's what I meant by "really weird things". A few years back, it was reported that even having the application installed in a private directory still triggered some odd behaviour.
>>> 2) I note that even if I set speaker and microphone to disabled >>> on my linux server, pulse audio seems to start up when I start up >>> an X server. Is this normal? >> Yes, if you don't want that then use "--pulseaudio=no" instead. > > Thanks! I didn't realize that option existed. > >>> 3) I'm running (as you might guess) on a Linux server with a mac >>> client. The mac has a retina display. I'd like to take advantage >>> of that to have nicer looking fonts and such while working >>> remotely, but if I set DPI to 144 (as opposed to 72, which I was >>> experimenting with before), it just makes everything twice as >>> big. Is there a way to tell Xpra that I want to see higher pixels >>> per inch on the client? >> That's a known issue: >> https://xpra.org/trac/ticket/1933 >> The changes are not trivial, but I may be able to get something >> done for v4.0. Feel free to subscribe to that ticket. > > Will do! And thank you so much for maintaining xpra! It takes a bit > of work to get going with it, but it's super-useful once things are > up and running. How can we make it easier to get going with it? > BTW, I noticed the documentation doesn't mention that if you use the > --sharing option that it will create a socket in /run/xpra if and > only if you are a member of group xpra on the server. It might be > useful to put that into the manual somewhere? Does this help: http://xpra.org/trac/changeset/23487/xpra Cheers, Antoine > > Perry > _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk https://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
