See ​https://xpra.org/trac/ticket/43#comment:23

Probably need to duplicate the workarounds to get Ubuntu to stop doing crazy things.

It would be nice if winswitch_server would rename the logfile to .prev (or something similar) when it's being started and/or gets eg. signal SIGHUP (similar to syslog), so that its size can be easily limited.

Hi! I installed winswitch on 3 systems of mine in the last days:

1.) Linux Mint Debian Editon (based on Debian Wheezy) 2.) Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal 3.) Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat

On 1.) and 2.) It worked well locally, although I was not able to use 1.) from 2.) - see ​https://winswitch.org/forum/topic/15/ for details

This issue is about the 3rd machine, the Ubuntu 10.10.

I did install winswitch like this:

curl https://winswitch.org/gpg.asc | apt-key add -
echo "deb http://winswitch.org/ maverick main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winswitch.list;
apt-get update
apt-get install winswitch

When starting the applet, it appeared in the statusbar, but reacted very sluggish (which did not get better even after 15 minutes) I could not open a session locally neither remote on the 1.) machine, although the second issue seems to stem from version incompatibilities of xpra.

I'll attach the logfile.