Can't use Qt applications over ssh

sourproton · 2023-04-11 15:11:33

Thank you for your help.

My work desktop is turned off inside my closed office, I have no way to turn it on.

If your suspicion is correct, how can I solve the problem in my arch machine?

Last edited by sourproton (2023-04-11 15:24:16)

seth · 2023-04-11 15:22:08

If my suspicion is correct you'll have to fix the server (the work desktop is irrelevant for the moment)
The question is whether you can do that.

Did you try a local ssh X11 forward?

Alternatively you'd have to steer the Qt client away from opengl contexts, what's probalby not possible for "ovito" specifically.
Then you're fucked.

sourproton · 2023-04-11 15:28:22

seth wrote:

Did you try a local ssh X11 forward?

What do you mean?

I have "ForwardX11 yes" in my .ssh/config file, then I "ssh hostname" to connect to the server.

seth wrote:

what's probalby not possible for "ovito" specifically

I have this problem with all applications. I can see Python and Julia plots for example, but they freeze and crash just after.

Last edited by sourproton (2023-04-11 15:28:39)

seth · 2023-04-11 15:31:25

seth wrote:

Configure and start sshd on the arch system, then "ssh localhost" and try to run glxinfo there.

Arch Linux