Hi Sophia, Regarding X forwarding on macOS: It turns out iglx is disabled by default since XQuartz 2.7.10. After enabling it, PyMOL works. I've put this information on the PyMOLWiki:
https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Remote_Desktop Cheers, Thomas > On Nov 19, 2018, at 1:36 PM, Thomas Holder <thomas.hol...@schrodinger.com> > wrote: > > Hi Sophia, > > This works on my old Mac with macOS 10.9 and XQuartz 2.7.7. However, on a > newer Mac with macOS 10.12 and XQuartz 2.7.11 ssh forwarding of OpenGL apps > doesn't work at all for me. Not even the "glxgears" test program works. > > The good news is: VirtualGL works really well, using macOS 10.12 as the > client and a Linux workstation as the server. > > mac # /opt/VirtualGL/bin/vglconnect linux > linux # vglrun pymol > > See also: > https://virtualgl.org/vgldoc/2_2_1/#hd004003 > > Cheers, > Thomas > >> On Nov 17, 2018, at 4:12 AM, Tan, Sophia <sophia....@ucsf.edu> wrote: >> >> Hi developers, >> >> I'm using PyMOL (2.2.3) on a Linux remote workstation, and am using X >> forwarding on my Mac by "ssh -Y etc." >> The X forwarding works on other applications, but for PyMOL, only the top >> menu bar with the command line shell output is displayed; the bottom display >> is all white, no matter what I try to load. >> >> How can I get the bottom display to work ? >> >> Thank you, >> Sophia -- Thomas Holder PyMOL Principal Developer Schrödinger, Inc. _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pymol/lists/pymol-users/unsubscribe
