On 08/05/2020 05:14, Joakim Ziegler via shifter-users wrote: > Hello, > > I'm testing Xpra for internal use in our company, essentially we need to > virtualize web browsers so they do not run on production machines, but > rather on a server in a DMZ, because of client content security > requirements. That's a very common usage scenario for Xpra.
> I've installed Xpra 3.0.6-r25177 on the server (Ubuntu Focal, with the > distribution packages, since there don't seem to be official Xpra packages > for 20.04 yet), and Xpra v3.0.9-r26132 from the official packages on the > client, which is a CentOS 7.4 box (to be upgraded at some point in the > future to latest CentOS 7). > > On the server, I've installed Chrome, which is the browser I'd prefer to > use, and I'm starting it from the client machine with the following > commandline: > > xpra start ssh:user@server --start google-chrome-stable > > This works fine, in that the Chrome window shows up on the client desktop > and I can use the web browser normally. However, the Chrome window can not > be moved or resized. Hovering the mouse pointer over the edges or corners > of the window changes the pointer shape to the typical "resize" pointer for > the corresponding edge/corner, but dragging does nothing. Trying to move > the window by dragging on the title bar also does nothing. > Minimize/maximize, however, works fine. That's a bug in the Ubuntu packages, once again... Don't use those if you don't have to: https://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Packaging/DistributionPackages > I suspect this is due to the custom window decorations Chrome uses, since > other applications (the canonical example is xterm, I guess) work fine and > can be resized normally. Correct, this works fine in Xpra though, just not in the version packaged in Ubuntu. > Any ideas or pointers to why this happens, and how to fix or work around? > Xpra seems perfect for my use case otherwise, so this is the only problem I > think I need to solve... Xpra 4.0 was due to be released this week, but there's one final bug delaying it. Until then, you can install it from the beta repository: https://xpra.org/repos/focal/xpra-beta.list Cheers, Antoine > > Thank you for any help. > _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk https://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
