I've got a remote tunnel, via

ssh -L 8022:host1:22

and connect to host2 via winswitch and the localhost:8022 tunnel.

Now, if I stop that outer SSH session (eg. via the "\n\n~." escape sequence) winswitch sees that the connection is severed, and displays "reconnect" in the servers menu.

But this doesn't work; on the first "reconnect" winswitch says that it couldn't connect, and only on the second try it really reconnects.

So it seems like there's some old state that is not being updated when a connection breaks.

It would be nice if the config file was read every time before xpra gets started; having a global default, and per-server overrides would be nice, too.

Thank you very much!

Hello,

I need 8 bit pseudocolor for some x apps who use it (don't have code of these apps to change it) to get blinking colors. But I don't get xpra working with depth = 8 bit.

When I (on a Red Hat 7.2) test 'xpra start' (v0.16.2-r11889) as root with DefaultDepth and Depth 8 in /root/.xpra/xorg.conf.d/Screen, I get following error in file ':0.log':

  File "window_bindings.pyx", line 604, in xpra.x11.bindings.window_bindings.X11WindowBindings.ensure_XComposite_support (xpra/x11/bindings/window_bindings.c:5406):
  ...
  File "window_bindings.pyx", line 426, in xpra.x11.bindings.window_bindings.X11WindowBindings.ensure_extension_support (xpra/x11/bindings/window_bindings.c:2342)
  ValueError: X11 extension Composite not available
  ...

See attachments for the necessary files.

I'm pretty sure it is a restriction in the x(dummy) server:

From source code package xorg-x11-server-Xorg, v 1.17.2, file composite/compext.c, fu CompositeExtensionInit:

  ...
  //Composite on 8bpp pseudocolor root windows appears to fail, so
  //just disable it on anything pseudocolor for safety.
          for (vis = pScreen->visuals; vis->vid != pScreen->rootVisual; vis++);
          if ((vis->class | DynamicClass) == PseudoColor)
              return;
  ...

Xvnc, on the other hand, does support 8-bit pseudocolor. My questions are:

• Is there a way to get 8 bit pseudocolor working with xpra that i overlook?
  • And do have the 'xpra'-developers an idea of what is necessary to get the 'composite' extension working with 8 bit pseudocolor. Or better to ask this on the Xorg team?

I don't know enough of it, but if Xvnc gets 8 bit pseudolor working, the I think it should also be possible to implement this for X + Composite extension. Xvnc must also use something Composite like, no?

Thanks in advance if you have the time and effort to look into these questions.