I am running xpra on a Fedora 24 system, using it to run "pidgin" so that I can keep the client alive between home and work. pidgin consists of two windows: a Buddy window and the main chat window which has multiple tabs for different conversations. I run the xpra/pidgin client on a Gentoo XFCE system on workspace 2. The xpra version on Fedora is: xpra-1.0-2.fc24.armv7hl . The Gentoo system is running xpra-0.17.6.
My problem is that, whenever I switch away from the workspace, the chat window stops updating and I lose the ability to type anything in it when I switch back.
The buddy window still remains active and, in fact, when selecting the chat window, anything I type goes to the buddy window. I do have things set up so that the buddy window doesn't show anything on the taskbar. I only have the chat window icon on the taskbar.
If I toggle the "OpenGL" setting from the Xpra icon I can get back proper behavior in the chat window until the next time I switch from the workspace. I understand this is just basically just restarting things.
If it matters: pidgin-2.11.0-1.fc24.armv7hl
Logs from -d workspace and -d window are attached.
workspace debugging
window debugging
Window manager: xfwm4-4.12.3-r1
This may be related to #1397. Does the fix in ticket:1397#comment:2 make any difference to this ticket? (otherwise I'll have to install pidgin as the problem does not manifest itself with an xterm)
That does seem to fix it, yes. Thanks!
this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1396