[Python-apps-team] Bug#678402: closed by أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy at sabily.org> (Use --xvfb switch)

[Michal Suchanek]

Excerpts from Debian Bug Tracking System's message of Fri Jun 29 11:21:19 +0200 2012:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the xpra package:
> 
> #678402: xpra: does not run X startup scripts on start
> 
> It has been closed by أحÙ
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ودي <aelmahmoudy at sabily.org>.
> 
> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
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> tag  678402 +wontfix
> quit
> .
> 
> Upstream responded to the bug as follows:
> 
>  It is not the role of xpra to deal with starting up the full X
>  environment, that is what tools like winswitch 
>  (http://winswitch.org/about) are for.

Of course, this is not work of xpra.
Where is winswitch packaged in debian, though?

> 
>  If you must do it with xpra, you can always point --xvfb to a script
>  of your choosing that starts whatever you require (dbus, etc).

As for that the Debian X session script that starts Xsession.d scripts,
~/.xsessionrc, and possibly some other undocumented scripts I don't even
know of it cannot be used with xpra because it insists on starting a window
manager. Patching in a 'dummy' session in addition to 'failsafe' should
not be hard but that mode is afaik not available.

Thanks

Michal