debian squeeze amd64. If I just start svn 693 server and connect gnome-terminal to it I see
[dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list! [dix] Could not init font path element /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType, removing from list! Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":3.0". Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":3.0". Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":3.0". Randr not supported: X server does not support required extension Randr using notification forwarder: <xpra.dbus_notifications_forwarder.DBUSNotificationsForwarder at /org/freedesktop/Notifications at 0x29dcf50> xpra is ready. Error parsing property _NET_WM_ICON (type icon); this may be a misbehaving application, or bug in Wimpiggy Data: '\x16\x00\x00\x00\x16\x00\x00\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\xff\xff\x00'[...?] error reading initial property _NET_WM_ICON Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/lindi/xpra-install/amd64/svn693_v0.0.7.22-584-ge448b3d/lib/python/wimpiggy/window.py", line 859, in _read_initial_properties self._handle_property_change(mutable) File "/home/lindi/xpra-install/amd64/svn693_v0.0.7.22-584-ge448b3d/lib/python/wimpiggy/window.py", line 699, in _handle_property_change self._property_handlers[name](self) File "/home/lindi/xpra-install/amd64/svn693_v0.0.7.22-584-ge448b3d/lib/python/wimpiggy/window.py", line 769, in _handle_net_wm_icon surf = self.prop_get("_NET_WM_ICON", "icon") File "/home/lindi/xpra-install/amd64/svn693_v0.0.7.22-584-ge448b3d/lib/python/wimpiggy/window.py", line 534, in prop_get return prop_get(self.client_window, key, type, ignore_errors=ignore_errors) File "/home/lindi/xpra-install/amd64/svn693_v0.0.7.22-584-ge448b3d/lib/python/wimpiggy/prop.py", line 316, in prop_get return _prop_decode(target, type, data) File "/home/lindi/xpra-install/amd64/svn693_v0.0.7.22-584-ge448b3d/lib/python/wimpiggy/prop.py", line 273, in _prop_decode return _prop_decode_scalar(disp, type, data) File "/home/lindi/xpra-install/amd64/svn693_v0.0.7.22-584-ge448b3d/lib/python/wimpiggy/prop.py", line 277, in _prop_decode_scalar value = deserialize(disp, data) File "/home/lindi/xpra-install/amd64/svn693_v0.0.7.22-584-ge448b3d/lib/python/wimpiggy/prop.py", line 166, in NetWMIcons stream = StringIO(data) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/io.py", line 1899, in __init__ initial_value = unicode(initial_value) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 8: invalid start byte
This differs from bug #101 since I am only testing xpra server and X client, not using xpra client at all yet.
same fix as #96: r697 uses the old python-2 only StringIO
class again.
was related to #96
this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/102