On 16/09/2019 15:33, Wolfram Humann via shifter-users wrote: > 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>? Version 3 should be released sometime this week.
> Or is it fairly safe to install a 3.0 beta? Unless I have missed something, it should be totally safe: the current beta builds are likely near identical to the final 3.0 release. > (Can I use a 2.5.3 server on > RHEL7 with a 3.0 windows client? Yes: http://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Versions All supported versions are compatible with each other. > -- if I understand correctly, the fix is > just in the client???) Correct. Cheers, Antoine > > 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 > _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk https://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
