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@metalefty Here's what worked for me for now. Nexarian/xrdp@d06b37f
Note this is a WIP branch so don't take too much stock in it.
Do you know anything about the right want to invoke the send_server_monitor_resize function (that I just created) from the dynamic monitor response processor? There seems to be a lot of signaling mechanisms and it's hard to know which is which.
I figured out how to get xrdp_mm.c to communicate to xup.c! Now I can see resize messages being sent from the client all the way to the xorgxrdp backend. The key was the mod structures. Really xrdp_mod is the same as mod, but the idea is that they may have slightly different formats to allow for implementation details.
Dynamic resizing is still not working however. I suspect I need to be cautious about the way the signaling mechanism works. Recently Jay had made some changes to the way xorgxrdp handles resize events, and it's possible those were oriented to resize-on-connection scenarios and aren't flexible enough to handle dynamic resizing of the xorgxrdp backend.
Continuing to investigate. I'm really proud of the progress I've made on this thus far!
Here is my latest change: Nexarian/xrdp@05a3a9a
It works now! To my knowledge, this is the first time dynamic monitor resizing has worked with XRDP!
In the end, it was mostly a matter of taking the dynamic_monitor branch that Jay had already created, and then moving out the "on connect" screen resize functions such that they could be called from a network response function rather than only on session connect.
Anyway, testing/comments appreciated. Build this custom branch and let me know: https://github.com/Nexarian/xrdp/tree/devel
No changes to xorgxrdp are necessary.
@Nexarian - I haven't looked at your code so far, but I'm really pleased you're on board with looking at this!
We got resize-on-reconnect working with the VNC backend working some time last year. I'll be happy to work with you on getting the dynamic resizing working with VNC when you get round to looking at it.
@aquesnel I wanted to talk to you more about issues I've seen in FreeRDP with this. I've noticed a lot of strangeness that I don't see on the Microsoft clients
Also if you're using MSTSC you're missing out, use the App store version, it has the resize-on-the-fly feature!
[16:35:27:675] [15685:15686] [DEBUG][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - rdp_send_data_pdu: sending data (type=0x1f size=49 channelId=1002)
[16:35:27:675] [15685:15686] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - BIO_should_retry returned a system error 32: Broken pipe
[16:35:27:675] [15685:15686] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core] - transport_default_write:freerdp_set_last_error_ex ERRCONNECT_CONNECT_TRANSPORT_FAILED [0x0002000D]
[16:35:27:675] [15685:15686] [DEBUG][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - rdp_recv_callback: CONNECTION_STATE_FINALIZATION - rdp_client_connect_demand_active() - -1
[16:35:27:675] [15685:15686] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - transport_check_fds: transport->ReceiveCallback() - -1
[16:35:27:675] [15685:15686] [DEBUG][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - transport_check_fds() - -1
[16:35:27:675] [15685:15686] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - rdp_recv_tpkt_pdu: rdp_recv_deactivate_all() fail
[16:35:27:675] [15685:15686] [DEBUG][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - rdp_recv_callback: CONNECTION_STATE_FINALIZATION - rdp_recv_pdu() - -1
[16:35:27:675] [15685:15686] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - transport_check_fds: transport->ReceiveCallback() - -1
[16:35:27:675] [15685:15686] [DEBUG][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - transport_check_fds() - -1
[16:35:27:675] [15685:15686] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - rdp_recv_tpkt_pdu: rdp_recv_deactivate_all() fail
[16:35:27:675] [15685:15686] [DEBUG][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - rdp_recv_callback: CONNECTION_STATE_FINALIZATION - rdp_recv_pdu() - -1
[16:35:27:675] [15685:15686] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - transport_check_fds: transport->ReceiveCallback() - -1
[16:35:27:675] [15685:15686] [DEBUG][com.freerdp.core.rdp] - transport_check_fds() - -1
[16:35:27:678] [15685:15686] [DEBUG][com.freerdp.core] - rdp_check_fds() - -1
[16:35:27:678] [15685:15686] [INFO][com.freerdp.client.common] - Network disconnect!
[16:35:27:682] [15685:15707] [DEBUG][com.freerdp.channels.drdynvc.client] - close_channel_iface: id=1
While working on #1802 I got build errors in the FreeBSD CI build: https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5691866718928896?command=configure#L8
The error message is:
./bootstrap
/usr/local/bin/autoconf
/usr/local/bin/automake
/usr/local/bin/libtool
/usr/local/bin/pkg-config
autoreconf-2.69: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf-2.69: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf-2.69: running: aclocal --force -I m4
autom4te-2.69: need GNU m4 1.4 or later: /usr/local/bin/gm4
aclocal: error: /usr/local/bin/autom4te-2.69 failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf-2.69: aclocal failed with exit status: 1The diff from the last commit that successfully built on FreeBSD in that branch is https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/pull/1802/commits/b87c73eedd5def6980292eea141b07f7b4a6451a
The previously successful build on FreeBSD can be found here: https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5676524592431104
I have no idea why this is failing since both builds say that they are using the same FreeBSD-12-1 version. Does anyone have an idea of what's causing this failure or how to fix it?
- successful build: https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5676524592431104
- failed build: https://cirrus-ci.com/task/6493238662004736
@aquesnel @metalefty - I think I've found this. See neutrinolabs/xrdp#1804
I'm nearly out of time today, but if the CI clears and I get time later I may merge this later today.