[chimerax-users] ChimeraX via Remote Desktop

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Dmitry,
We can't provide support for using ChimeraX remotely, as mentioned here:
  <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/system_requirements.html>

However, in some cases, there may be experts (as shared by Ricardo, thanks!) able to make it work for certain specific configurations, and we welcome their input to this mailing list.
Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Jun 30, 2022, at 8:29 AM, Ricardo Righetto via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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,
> Could you please share the experience on remote desktop work with ChimeraX?
> 
> The ChimeraX is installed on Centos 7.
> 
> Probably a certain issue holding ChimeraX from starting (OpenGL)?
> Kind regards,
> Dmitry