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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2007 - 11:20:36 CST

Hi,
  Beyond the suggestions others have mentioned, you'll also want to
check and make sure that the X windows server you're using supports
GLX protocol, and that the machine you're running VMD on is able
to attach and create a GLX context. If the VMD host machine is
on Linux (for example) you can use the 'glxinfo' command to check
that the X server supports GLX OpenGL remote display protocol.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:52:51AM -0800, christopher wrote:
>
> This sounds like an xhost problem. You need to set the xhost before
> connecting and set the display after ssh'ing... Something like:
>
> xhost +
> ssh <servername>
> setenv DISPLAY <clientname>:0.0
> vmd
>
> Ayþe Özlem Sezerman wrote:
> > Dear VMD users,
> >
> > We cannot run VMD from a remote server. We have checked that the
> > installation in that remote computer is succesfully established. But
> > when we try to connect that remote host from a local computer via ssh
> > and try to run vmd we face an error message as follows "Cannot open
> > display: " . We have also checked than Open GL libraries are installed
> > to that remote. Have anyone faced a problem like this ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ozlem
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 

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