At least in my testing, the 3D window managers in Ubuntu 14.04 (Unity) and RHEL 7 (Gnome 3.8.x) now work when you use the latest pre-releases of VirtualGL (2.4 post-beta: http://www.virtualgl.org/DeveloperInfo/PreReleases) and TurboVNC (2.0 evolving: http://www.turbovnc.org/DeveloperInfo/PreReleases).
Pass an argument of -3dwm to /opt/TurboVNC/bin/vncserver when starting TurboVNC in order to activate 3D window manager support (all this really does is run the xstartup.turbovnc file with 'vglrun +wm'. You can achieve the same thing less automatically with other X proxies, if you choose.) Be sure to delete ~/.vnc/xstartup.turbovnc and let vncserver create a new one for you, because there are some fixes in xstartup.turbovnc that are necessary to make Unity start properly under Ubuntu 14.04. Specifically, the new xstartup.turbovnc will automatically launch the gnome-fallback session if 3D window manager support isn't activated, and it will launch Unity otherwise. Using -3dwm also allows you to run older versions of Gnome (for instance, the one that ships with RHEL 6) with desktop effects enabled. As a side effect, running a 3D window manager in this way allows you to launch 3D applications without using vglrun. I don't consider this a "feature", though. It's actually more of a bug, because there are likely some hidden issues that will spring up because of it-- certain non-3D applications that won't enjoy having VirtualGL preloaded into them. I don't know of a way around it at the moment, though, so please do your own testing and file a bug report or post a message to VirtualGL-Users if you encounter any issues. DRC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VirtualGL-Users mailing list VirtualGL-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtualgl-users
