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 Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion 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
