[chimerax-users] ChimeraX via Remote Desktop

[Ricardo Righetto]

Dear Dmitry,

We have ChimeraX 1.3 running smoothly with 3D graphics acceleration over
VNC (TurboVNC server, any VNC client works in principle) sessions using
VirtualGL:
https://virtualgl.org/

Performance is quite good even when working from home connected to our
university VPN.

Basically we launch ChimeraX using the command 'vglrun -d egl ChimeraX'
(which you can easily put in an alias to 'ChimeraX').

The only minor issue we have currently is that for displaying EM maps, we
have to give the map file already when opening ChimeraX ( 'vglrun -d egl
ChimeraX mymap.mrc' ), otherwise it doesn't work. But once you open a map
you can open other maps from within the ChimeraX session. This is not an
issue with PDB models.

I don't have much information about the setup because I didn't do it
myself, but I can get more details from our cluster specialists if you are
interested.

Best wishes,

--
Ricardo Diogo Righetto


Em qui., 30 de jun. de 2022 às 16:53, Dmitry Semchonok via ChimeraX-users <
chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> escreveu:

> Dear colleagues,
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> Could you please share the experience on remote desktop work with ChimeraX?
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> The ChimeraX is installed on Centos 7.
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> Probably a certain issue holding ChimeraX from starting (OpenGL)?
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> Kind regards,
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> Dmitry
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