Do you expect a release in the near future so I can try out the fix from r23459 <https://xpra.org/trac/changeset/23459/xpra>? Or is it fairly safe to install a 3.0 beta? (Can I use a 2.5.3 server on RHEL7 with a 3.0 windows client? -- if I understand correctly, the fix is just in the client???)
Best regards Wolfram On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 16:20, Antoine Martin <anto...@nagafix.co.uk> wrote: > Can you please re-send to the mainling list? > > Antoine > > On 01/08/2019 20:54, Wolfram Humann wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. Some observations: > > 1. I managed to install 1.0.13 doing "sudo yum --releasever=7.1 install > > xpra" (had to manually install python-crypto before it would work but > > that's all) > > I had tried something similar before editing winswitch.repo and > > replacing > > "baseurl=http://winswitch.org/dists/CentOS/$releasever/$basearch/"; with > > "baseurl=http://winswitch.org/dists/CentOS/7.1/$basearch/"; but to my > > surprise yum still wanted to install version 2.5.3 (and failed as > > mentioned before when I tried to force yum to install 1.0.13) > > > > 2. I have a Konsole window receiving lots of output from a program and > > therefore scrolling fast. In 1.0.13 there is no problem with that. In > > 2.5.3 it always hangs a bit between screen updates. Also in 2.5.3 I > > sometimes receive messages about my connection being slow with some > > options what to do about it. I've never seen those in 1.0.13 > > > > 3. In 2.5.3 when I have menus hitting the bottom of the screen, I will > > have a vertical offset between the mouse-pointer and the selected entry > > (see attached screenshots -- the mouse pointer is 6-7 entries higher > > than the selection). That does not happen in 1.0.13. It might be worth > > mentioning that I have an (unusual?) setup of one horizontal (main) > > monitor and one vertical on the left, so there are screen coordinates on > > the left monitor extending below and above the main screen. > > > > If you have any suggestions, I can go back to 2.5.3. and try them out. > > But I will be on vacation for one week starting tomorrow, so I would do > > that afterwards. > > > > Thanks for maintaining and supporting this nice and very useful piece of > > software! > > Wolfram > > > > > > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 19:17, Antoine Martin <anto...@nagafix.co.uk > > <mailto:anto...@nagafix.co.uk>> wrote: > > > > On 31/07/2019 20:41, Wolfram Humann via shifter-users wrote: > > > I've been using xpra 1.0.x before on an older workstation and > > 2.5.3 on the > > > current workstation. My impression is that the old version was > running > > > smoother and had less network problems. > > That's possible but it would be extremely surprising. > > There are no "network problems" that I am aware of. > > > > > That may be true or not!! I just > > > wanted to try it out. So I yum remove-ed the current version and > some > > > dependencies and tried > > > sudo yum install xpra-1.0.13 > > > and got > > > Loaded plugins: langpacks, search-disabled-repos > > > RHEL7-ATE_Workstation_tools > > (..) > > > Error: Package: xpra-1.0.13-1.r21370.el7_6.x86_64 (winswitch) > > > Requires: libvpx.so.5()(64bit) > > > Available: libvpx-xpra-1.7.0-1.el7_5.x86_64 (winswitch) > > > libvpx.so.5()(64bit) > > > Available: libvpx-xpra-1.7.0-1.el7_6.x86_64 (winswitch) > > > libvpx.so.5()(64bit) > > > Installing: libvpx-xpra-1.8.0-1.el7_6.x86_64 (winswitch) > > > ~libvpx.so.6()(64bit) > > > You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem > > > You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest > > > > > > What can I do? > > yum is not capable of figuring out which libvpx version it should be > > installing, trying to install the latest one instead. > > That's a known issue with yum. > > > > You may be able to install the old version by manually installing > > libvpx-1.7 first. If yum still tries to upgrade libvpx, you will > have to > > hand pick the packages yourself.. > > > > Bear in mind that the 1.0 branch will be EOLed very soon. > > Personally, I wouldn't bother with it. Especially on RHEL 7.x, which > can > > run newer versions very well. > > > > Cheers, > > Antoine > > > > > > > > Best regards > > > Wolfram > > > > _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk https://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
