Hello Antoine, Thank you for the quick response.
Am 04.07.20 um 19:00 schrieb Antoine Martin via shifter-users: > On 04/07/2020 23:18, develop_at_Sophtwearteam via shifter-users wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> [...] > xpra does not interfere with the normal X11 desktop that I assume you > are running since you are using cinnamon. > > None of its components are loaded into your current X11 server by > default: the xpra server runs using its own dedicated display which is > completely dissociated from the rest, and when you run the xpra client > it will use the X11 display just like any other client application would. > > One possibility here is that your OpenGL drivers are so buggy that they > somehow corrupt the display. This would be a first, but it is not > impossible, especially with the Intel driver: > https://xpra.org/trac/wiki/ClientRendering/OpenGL#IntelDriverIssues > You can try running with OpenGL disabled: --opengl=no > [...] > What does this mean? The xpra client stopped working? > Yes, I cannot tell in detail because not having seeing it, although we had a Jitsi-meet-session with desktop sharing, but unfortunately the screen from the other guy wasn't shown in that situation. [...] > This sounds like Xorg packages were removed when they should not be. > Removing xpra should never remove any system packages, and I don't see > how it would end up doing that. > Perhaps this is related to the HWE Xorg packaging mess that Ubuntu > created, more details here: > https://www.xpra.org/trac/ticket/2190 > > Note: the xpra.org packages are for Ubuntu, Mint is not explicitly > supported - though it should work. > [..] > opensuse is not supported by xpra.org > Nevertheless it seems to be in the repos. >> All installations came from the repositories of their distributions. No >> foreign repos where used. > It's not 100% clear to me if you are using packages from xpra.org or > from your distribution. >From the distro repos only. > FYI: downstream packages are known to cause all sorts of problems, > including some similar to the ones your describe: > https://www.xpra.org/trac/wiki/Packaging/DistributionPackages > >> This led us to the conclusion not to install and run Xpra anymore. > That's unfortunate. If you haven't done so already, you may want to try > the packages from xpra.org, as no such extreme problems have ever been > reported with those. > [...] We'll see. I for myself had no intention using Xpra at all. I do not know and cannot follow up how Xpra came to my system. It was kind of a surprise to me having a new program in my internet-group-folder. > Thanks for the heads up! > FYI: the Ubuntu packages are the worst, by far: > https://www.xpra.org/trac/wiki/Packaging/DistributionPackages/Ubuntu > > If the Fedora packages had any problems anywhere near as bad as what you > describe, this would be fixed in very short order as I use Fedora daily. > > Cheers, > Antoine [...] Regards stippi _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk https://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
