Re: Xpra

[Antonio Russo <aerusso@aerusso.net>]

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