Xpra: Ticket #1289: xpra hangs on connect from windows

Xpra hangs frequently when opening a conection from windows, a clipboard icon is shown in the task bar and the tooltip says pending clipboard operation or something like that. I think this happens when you move the xpra session from and to windows more than once (linux -> windows -> linux -> windows again and hangs) Im running xpra with this command:

xpra --no-microphone --no-speaker --no-pulseaudio start :100 --start-child=mySession.sh

where mySession.sh is:

exec env LANG=es_MX.utf8 GTK_THEME='Win 10' mate-session

Trying to reconnect the client doesn't work it seems the server is what hangs but I know the programs are running because I hear the sound (I have default-server in .pulse/client.conf running sound without xpra)



Sun, 21 Aug 2016 22:44:50 GMT - observer: attachment set

Output of the xpra bug tool


Mon, 22 Aug 2016 03:01:28 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner changed

See wiki/Clipboard and the wiki/FAQ.

Does it work OK if you disable the clipboard? Do you have a clipboard manager running? synergy? Or maybe a virtual machine?


FYI: in version 1.0, you can do

xpra start --start=mate-session --start-env="LANG=es_MX.utf8" --start-env="GTK_THEME=Win 10"

Mon, 22 Aug 2016 04:47:36 GMT - Antoine Martin: description changed

See also #1288


Wed, 07 Sep 2016 10:10:09 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed; resolution set

Not heard back, closing. Feel free to re-open if you have more information.


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:20:12 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1289