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

[Michal Suchanek]

Excerpts from Antoine Martin's message of Thu Jul 12 08:00:06 +0200 2012:
> On 11/07/12 00:21, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > Excerpts from Antoine Martin's message of Tue Jul 10 17:11:02 +0200 2012:

> > Note also that the true command exits immediately so any dbus,
> > ssh-agent, and similar daemons started by the session will exit
> > immediately as well.
> >
> > You could run a non-ending process instead but then the session daemons
> > would stay even after the X server exits.
> >
> > A client that connects to the X server and waits for it to terminate
> > would be ideal but I know of none that does just this.
> Odd, because it would be trivial to write.

It is not the most trivial, you need to process X events so that you
notice the connection error when the X server goes away. Or watch the fd
if you can extort Xlib to give you the fd of the server connection.

> 
> > Perhaps some sample script in documentation, or perhaps even a
> > xorg.conf.dummy and a script in /usr/bin using it could be installed
> > with xpra so that everyone does not have to figure out how the hell is
> > that thing supposed to work.
> >

> > A sample script using xorg.conf.dummy could look like this:
> >
> > xpra --xvfb="Xorg -nolisten tcp -config xorg.conf.dummy -noreset +extension GLX +extension RANDR +extension RENDER -logfile ~/.xpra/xserver-$DISPLAY.log" --start-child="/etc/X11/Xsession true" start :$DISPLAY
> >
> > It is sad that you can't know what display xpra picks when starting it
> > but without actually patching xpra you can't do more than that.
> I think the config file option above is the easiest way to improve 
> things quickly?

It requires that the xorg.conf linked on the wiki is installed at
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.dummy
Otherwise full path to the file is required.

Thanks

Michal