Application Quirks

Note: some of these issues may be at least partially resolved in newer versions, or have known workarounds. See the ticket links for details.

Here is a list of applications which have bugs that need to be resolved, these bugs cannot be fixed in xpra, only in each misbehaving application:

• ​Google Chrome (and chromium and derivatives): transient windows focus issues #519, upstream bug: ​chromium bug 349322
• firefox and thunderbird: can only be launched on a single display per user account
• ​handbrake:
  • "window resize loop" #532, upstream bug (being ignored): ​Program border flickering with handbrake-gtk
  • the tray icon is not functional (abuse of the XEMBED api)
• Java applications:
  • problems with window dimensions, especially with Sun JDK6 or older: #725, #705
  • failure to raise windows: #718
  • DPI issues: #163
  • other, application specific bugs: #378
• Mainsoft's mainwin applications can lockup the X11 server: #785

These application may behave oddly:

• ​kate editor and ​KMail: unnecessary repaints #522, this is causing video encodings to degrade quality. Increase the minimum quality setting or use a lossless encoding if you are having issues.
• KDE, see wiki/FAQ