Good Evening!
I'm attempting to get xpra working on a headless server -- and not
having much success. Any advice/hints would be very much welcomed.
Background: I'm trying to provision a thin client (Raspberry Pi,
running Raspberry Pi OS, and Wayland/labwc). My Gentoo server is
headless. Things are complicated by the fact that I know very little
about Wayland, and not a lot more about the intricate workings of X!
And, at this point, I'm only *assuming* that xpra is the answer to
what I am trying to achieve...
What works (commands issued on the Raspberry):
1) Test that I can do simple X forwarding...
ssh -X 192.168.123.254 xeyes
ssh -X 192.168.123.254 xclock
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2) Test that the thin client is able to receive and display a
connection on a loopback to itself
xpra start ssh:192.168.123.70 --start-child="xclock"
- or, performing the same task in a slightly different way: on the server:
xpra start :100
DISPLAY=:100 xclock &
and on the client:
xpra attach ssh:192.168.123.70:100
3) Attempt to do the same thing, running application on the server. This FAILS.
xpra start ssh:192.168.123.254 --start-child="xarclock"
My general approach is to keep things minimal, so the USE flags I
attempted to install xpra with were:
USE = "minimal server". This wouldn't work at all, so I'm currently
using USE="server client X gtk3".
Now I'm hitting the following error message within the client:
"disconnect invalid packet encoding: 'rencode' decoder is not available"
I have the package dev-python/rencode installed, but this doesn't
help. I'm assuming that this is a server problem? I had to manually
install paramiko, since this wasn't pulled in by dependencies -- could
this be a similar issue? Or is it somply a configuration issue?
I'm now getting frustrated, not quite knowing what the problem is. An
added complexity is that xpra is now on v6.3.1 upstream, but only
v6.2.5-r1 in portage. Would I be better simply compiling by hand from
the upstream sources?
Does anyone here use xpra, and can give pointers on how to get this
working please?
With thanks,
Phil
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