Re: [PyMOL] how to activate pymol from remote server

[Thomas H. <sp...@us...>]

Hi Masataka,

> Sorry for lack of information, what all I'd like to do is:
> - Scripting in [C] (on Cygwin or telnet over Command Prompt etc.
> welcome), which includes login procedure to [S] by 'ssh -l (loginname)
> (hostname)'
> - pymol GUI open in [S]'s window (not in [C])

that was not clear before, I assumed the GUI should be opened on [C]. 
Then you do not need X-forwarding. Instead, on [S] there must be a 
running X from the same user and you need to know the DISPLAY variable 
there!

ssh -l loginname hostname
export DISPLAY=:0.0   # just as example!
pymol -qip  # this will listen for commands on the command line

Also check:
http://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Command_Line_Options
http://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Launching_From_a_Script

And yet to mention: Troels is right, it's not really a PyMOL issue. Try 
launching a simple program (like xclock) and if you are successful, then 
try the same with PyMOL.

Cheers,
   Thomas

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Thomas Holder
MPI for Developmental Biology