Hello everyone:

I'm a new virtualgl user. I'm trying to run an OpenGL program in a VNC
session by calling vglrun <program>. The program runs fine, but the
contents of the monitor attached to the server gets completely
clobbered as a side effect. By this I mean the monitor flashes seizure
inducing patterns while my program is running, stops changing when I
kill the program, but never recovers to a usable state until I restart
the X session. From reading the background page, I was under the
impression that VGL uses an off-screen pixel buffer to do the
rendering for my remote program, so I should still be able to use the
server's local X session normally. Am I mistaken?

Some specs: The server is running Ubuntu 12 with the standard session
manager and default Nvidia driver, TigerVNC 1.1.0, and virtualgl
2.3.1. When I ran vglserver_config, I answered No to all 3 security
questions (this is just for testing, and I don't really understand
xauth). I never manually set the DISPLAY variable; it was empty when I
started vncserver, and its value was ":1" in the VNC session.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry if this is a duplicate of
some other thread; this feels like a common problem, but I couldn't
find anything in the archives using all the keywords I could think of.

Joseph

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