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.

XPRA is so fantastic that I sometimes use it to view several remote machines at the same time. This packs several identical stylish icons side-by-side in the tray of whatever Ubuntu session manager I happen to be using.

In this situation, disconnecting the correct session while preserving the rest can be a challenge. It would be nice if the menu that pops up when I click on the XPRA icon could list the name of the corresponding host machine at the very top. The floating tooltips associated with the icons convince me that this should be possible. I would appreciate seeing confirmation that I have clicked on the correct icon right in the menu itself.

Thanks!

Hi,

The latest version of xpra (1.0-r14532) causes winswitch client not to enable xpra.

Looking at the client log, this following line suggests winswitch is expecting a third integer in the versioning sequence (as was in the previous xpra version, 0.17.0) and so the client/server xpra versioning comparison process fails at this point:

ServerLineConnection.xpra_version_compat(1.0-r14532,1.0-r14532) invalid literal for int() with base 10: '0-r14532'