[Python-apps-team] Bug#681051: xpra: menus pop up off-screen

[Antoine Martin]

On 10/07/12 21:18, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Excerpts from Antoine Martin's message of Tue Jul 10 13:46:34 +0200 2012:
>> On 10/07/12 18:37, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>> Excerpts from Antoine Martin's message of Tue Jul 10 11:29:03 +0200 2012:
>>>> Please see here:
>>>> https://www.xpra.org/Xdummy.html
>>>>
>>>> This is the only workable fix for this problem.
>>>
>>> These are packaged in Debian.
>>>
>>> Why is the bug happening still?
>> Because you are using the default Xvfb and not Xdummy.
>>
>> See the bottom of the page on how to setup xpra to use Xdummy using the
>> "--xvfb=" switch.
>
> Then the part of the man page saying
>
>     xpra start
>            This command starts a new xpra server, including any necessary
> 	  setup.
>
> is misleading at best if not outright wrong.
I don't understand what you are saying. It does what it says, it is just 
that for an optimal setup you should use Xdummy instead of Xvfb.
The man page is not the place to start writing a novel about the best 
way to setup your x11 server (Xdummy vs Xvfb, dbus, various agents and 
whatnot)

This is mostly a dependency and packaging issue though: at present xpra 
depends on Xvfb. Making Xdummy the default is a long term goal, but 
until most distributions start packaging recent versions of Xorg (1.12 
or later) and of the dummy driver (0.3.5), Xvfb will remain the default.

Feel free to provide this better wording you speak of.

Cheers
Antoine



>
> Thanks
>
> Michal
>