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xpra breaks with i3 #4415

Closed CorbinWunderlich closed 1 week ago

CorbinWunderlich commented 1 week ago

Describe the bug When trying to use the --use-display flag with xpra to take over a gpu-accelerated display, if that is running i3, the display will crash back to the display manager, and if I wrap i3 in say, xfce, it just becomes a seamless session with all the windows on that display. I tried this with plasma, and it worked flawlessly. I am using the html5 client.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Run i3 on a GPU-acclerated display
  2. run xpra --use-display [display]
  3. connect via html5 client or otherwise

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CorbinWunderlich commented 1 week ago

Sorry, I didn't realize that I wasn't using start-desktop.

totaam commented 1 week ago

In seamless mode, there can only be one display manager: xpra or i3.

If i3 claims the _NEW_WM_CM_S0 selection, then xpra should have printed the message: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/blob/0dfe55ed50404565e53d4fab4a47ea4d5295c4ec/xpra/x11/gtk/wm_check.py#L111-L115

Did it?

xpra --use-display [display]

This is not a valid command.

Xpra Server Version 6.1.3

This is out of date.

CorbinWunderlich commented 1 week ago

In seamless mode, there can only be one display manager: xpra or i3.

If i3 claims the _NEW_WM_CM_S0 selection, then xpra should have printed the message:

https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/blob/0dfe55ed50404565e53d4fab4a47ea4d5295c4ec/xpra/x11/gtk/wm_check.py#L111-L115

Did it?

xpra --use-display [display]

This is not a valid command.

Xpra Server Version 6.1.3

This is out of date.

Hm. It's working great for me now. Using start-desktop instead of start allows me to use my own wm.

totaam commented 1 week ago

Using start-desktop ...

Yes, that's desktop mode. xpra start is seamless mode.

The more modern syntax is :xpra desktop or xpra seamless instead of xpra start-whatever

CorbinWunderlich commented 1 week ago

Using start-desktop ...

Yes, that's desktop mode. xpra start is seamless mode.

The more modern syntax is :xpra desktop or xpra seamless instead of xpra start-whatever

Alright. No complains, so far the best remote desktop solution I've tried. html5 client has some audio latency but it seems to be a known issue and it isn't a necessity. Thanks for creating this great software!