As the "kbd-sync=off" default still doesn't work (#184 _not_ working, AFAICS), I resorted to use the "Information" dialog to switch it off and reconnect.

This doesn't work with 0.12.14 anymore - the "Reconnect" and "Detach" buttons don't restart my xpra. The winswitch tray icon changes its color, but ~/.winswitch/client/applet.log doesn't get any new lines and the xpra sessions isn't restarted with the updated settings.

Xming is failing to launch because one of the PATH variables is unicode and Python 2.7 doesn't accept unicode there.

[EE] 2014/18/09 15:15:47.722000 process_util.exec_nopipe(['C:\\Program Files (x86)\\WinSwitch\\Xming\\Xming.exe', ':6066', '-ac', '-multiwindow', '-clipboard', '-notrayicon'],None,None,False,False,None,True)
[ee] 2014/18/09 15:15:47.722000 Traceback (most recent call last):
[ee] 2014/18/09 15:15:47.722000   File "winswitch\util\process_util.pyc", line 119, in exec_nopipe
[ee] 2014/18/09 15:15:47.722000   File "subprocess.pyc", line 709, in __init__
[ee] 2014/18/09 15:15:47.722000   File "subprocess.pyc", line 957, in _execute_child
[ee] 2014/18/09 15:15:47.722000 TypeError: environment can only contain strings
[DD] 2014/18/09 15:15:47.722000 Xming_Util.start_Xming_display() xming process failed... None
[II] 2014/18/09 15:15:47.732000 NXClientUtil.Xming_err(coult not start Xming process)

Fix would be to add for k, v in env.items(): env[k] = str(v) to exec_nopipe in winswitch/util/process_util.py

I've tested this in a Python shell since I'm not set up to build WinSwitch?.

>>> from subprocess import Popen
>>> env = {'GST_PLUGIN_PATH': u'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\WinSwitch\\gstreamer-0.10'}
>>> Popen("notepad", env=env)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#40>", line 1, in <module>
    Popen("notepad", env=env)
  File "C:\Portable Python 2.7.6.1\App\lib\subprocess.py", line 709, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "C:\Portable Python 2.7.6.1\App\lib\subprocess.py", line 957, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
TypeError: environment can only contain strings

>>> for k, v in env.items(): env[k] = str(v)

	
>>> Popen("notepad", env=env)
<subprocess.Popen object at 0x02818410>

xterm started as application session on the remote server runs with umask 0000. This has security impact as files/directories created by users are then world-writable. Expected: some sensible default like 002 or 022.

Version: winswitch 0.12.23-1, xpra 2.1.1-r16658-1

Possible cause: winswitch server assumes umask will be set in /etc/bashrc. That is true on Red Hat derived systems. But it is not true on Ubuntu (tested 16.04 LTS) where I think umask is expected to be set by PAM session (pam_umask.so).

Perhaps related, the PAM file provided by /etc/pam.d/xpra seems to assume a Red Hat style system and most of the PAM modules referenced there do not exist on a Ubuntu system.