[chimerax-users] How to access ChimeraX remotely from macbook (OS mojave)?

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Rayees,

I guess you have X Windows (XQuartz) running on your Mac and are hoping that X remote display from Linux to the Mac will work with ChimeraX.  Unfortunately X Windows remote display of 3D OpenGL graphics has not worked reliably since the days Silicon Graphics computers in the 1990s.  It is possible to get it to work between two Linux machines with identical OpenGL drivers.  But it would be a near miracle if the XQuartz implementation of X Windows on Mac could handle the OpenGL from a Linux machine.

The sensible approach is to run ChimeraX directly on your MacBook Pro.  We don't recommend remote display even when it works because rendering speed is likely to be poor.

	Tom


> On Jul 22, 2021, at 1:31 PM, Rayees Mattoo via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I am trying to access ChimeraX remotley using my mac book pro. The ChimeraX is installed on linux machine. Upon launching, the chimeraX GUI appears and suddenly disappears with the following error message: "ChimeraX requires OpenGL graphics version 3.3. Your computer graphics driver provided version 1.4, Try updating your graphics driver". 
> My mac currently has macOS mojave version 10.14.6 and it seems it does not have OpenGL graphics version 3.3 required to display chimeraX remotely. Is there any way out to fix the problem? Not sure if updating my macbook to Catalina or BigSur is going to help! 
> 
> Best
> Rayees 
> 
> 
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