Path adjustments needed when installed with --user

[skids]

When installed from source with setup.py install --user, the generated xpra.conf still points the xvfb to /etc/ to find the xorg.conf file rather than adjusting to the account-local path where the generated xorg.conf has been installed.

Also .xpra/xpra.conf is not populated, and must be moved/symlinked from e.g. .local/etc/xpra.conf, or xpra should check there as well.

[Antoine Martin]

Yes, that's a known bug. Thanks for the ticket.
distutils makes this harder than it should be.

[Antoine Martin]

It's more difficult than it looks, the xpra.conf file is generated during the build step... the install step may use a different path, yet we need to know the path to set the location of the xorg.conf file referenced in this config file.

[Antoine Martin]

Done:

• r8496 + r8498 allows us to use the .local installation path if that's where we are launched from
• r8497 generates the correct paths in the config file

skids: can I close this ticket?

[Antoine Martin]

Not heard back, closing.

[migration script]

this ticket has been moved to: ​https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/720