On Fri 25 Apr 2025 at 04:37, Antonio Russo wrote:
> On 2025-04-24 15:27, Michael Stone wrote:
> > yes, xpra has been in bad shape for a while, but nobody seemed to care
> enough to fix it
>
> No quite! Anyone can check out my PR [1] that gets it working with 6.0.
>
> I stopped tracking upstream for my own personal builds of Xpra a few
> months ago
> (admittedly, I stopped pushing those updates to the MR long before that
> because of
> lack of apparent interest). If people actually care about it, I can
> refresh the MR
> to the latest release. Most of the time, the updates to get it working
> with the
> next version are quite simple.
>
> I will have to warn anyone looking at it though: I stopped used Xpra
> because I'm
> trying to move over to wayland, and the primary reason I used it was to
> "shadow"
> existing desktops to provide "remote desktop" service calls to less
> technical users
> needing help. Xpra doesn't (or at least did not) have a roadmap for that
> feature,
> so I'm looking at krfb to that end. Given how easy the packaging is to
> maintain
> now, I don't think that should stop anyone from giving it a go.
>
> Antonio
>
>
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xpra/-/merge_requests/5
>
I use it as well. I've a couple of programs that do not work directly
under X
but work through Xpra. Strange enough, but I did not really care since I
have
Xpra!
Loïc
