Xpra: Ticket #436: debian bug #725076 xpra: window titles say

Forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725076

Package: xpra
Version: 0.10.4+dfsg-2
Severity: normal

Since I upgraded xpra I noticed that window titles no longer show the hostname but instead <unknown machine>. Please the attached screencast for more information.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xpra depends on:
ii  libavcodec54              6:9.8-2+b1
ii  libc6                     2.17-93
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.21-1
ii  libswscale2               6:9.8-2+b1
ii  libvpx1                   1.2.0-2
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.1-1
ii  libx264-133               2:0.133.2339+git585324f-2
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-1
ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.1-1
ii  libxrandr2                2:1.4.1-1
ii  libxtst6                  2:1.2.2-1
ii  python                    2.7.5-5
ii  python-gtk2               2.24.0-3+b1
ii  x11-xserver-utils         7.7+1
ii  xserver-xorg-input-void   1:1.4.0-1+b2
ii  xserver-xorg-video-dummy  1:0.3.7-1+b1
Versions of packages xpra recommends:
ii  openssh-client  1:6.2p2-6
ii  python-imaging  1.1.7-4
ii  python-webm     0.2.2-2
ii  ssh-askpass     1:1.2.4.1-9
Versions of packages xpra suggests:
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad   0.10.23-7.1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good  0.10.31-3+nmu1
ii  openssh-server              1:6.2p2-6
ii  pulseaudio                  4.0-6+b1
ii  pulseaudio-utils            4.0-6+b1
ii  python-dbus                 1.2.0-2+b1
pn  python-gst0.10              <none>
pn  python-gtkglext1            <none>


Wed, 02 Oct 2013 03:40:03 GMT - Timo Juhani Lindfors: attachment set

screencast that shows "<unknown machine>" in window title


Wed, 02 Oct 2013 10:47:36 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner, description changed

FWIW: works fine here. Any idea when this problem started? 0.10.x?


Wed, 09 Oct 2013 05:36:18 GMT - Antoine Martin:

Please post:

(the window title should contain the application's title)

(the window title should contain the server hostname)

If possible, try running with "-d all" and grepping for "client-machine".


Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:50:12 GMT - onlyjob: cc set


Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:07:24 GMT - onlyjob:

When Xpra just attached to the session everything appears normal but titles change to "on <unknown machine>" as soon as I click (change) tab in Iceweasel (aka Firefox) or in GnuCash. To reproduce issue in kmail it is enough to change active email folder once. All commands with various "--title" parameters appears to work for me; I see correct host name when I attach with "-d all 2>&1 | grep client-machine".

I first noticed the problem in 0.10.4 or 0.10.3 but I didn't pay much attention to it so it could have appear earlier.


Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:20:13 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner, priority, status changed; milestone set

Hah, OK. Looks like the client app changes its title when you change tabs, we forward the new title to the client, and somehow when we do the string substitution the client-machine value has changed from whatever-it-should-be back to unknown-machine... (the default)


Mon, 14 Oct 2013 15:01:37 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner, status changed

With this new info, it was pretty easy to find the problem (I haven't looked at how old this is - probably not very old, maybe 0.10.x only).

The completely untested but obviously correct fix is in r4496 (see changeset message for details - it fits the symptoms perfectly), does this work for you?


Tue, 15 Oct 2013 03:24:14 GMT - onlyjob:

Fix from r4496 works very well, thank you. :)


Tue, 15 Oct 2013 03:36:17 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed; resolution set

Applied to 0.10.x in r4500, 0.10.6 tagged with it in r4501


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 04:55:24 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/436