Re: [PyMOL] Shader issues and automatic disabling (was Re: I just built pymol, comes up but hangs on any attempt...)

[Ben E. <be...@hk...>]

Hi Jason,

> > Ah, I bet this is because they are running it via X-forwarding over an
> > ssh tunnel. I'm pretty certain that one of the reports came from a user
> > running PyMOL this way, and I can duplicate the error messages running over
> > a tunnel.
> >
> > Is this actually going to break anything?
> 
> Yes -- volumes won't render correctly and the high-performance and
> -quality graphics won't be enabled. However, you should still have
> basic rendering and functionality.

Is there a suggested workaround?

I wonder how the shaders are actually loaded. In my local test case, the
PyMOL directory is hosted on NFS and automounted to/from the same location,
so in theory no matter which side is trying the fopen (or whatever), it
should be able to find the file on disk at the same path.

Thanks for your help.

-ben

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| Ben Eisenbraun
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