[Paraview-developers] Remote rendering requirement of account privilege?

[Di Cheng]

Utkarsh 

Thanks for your reply.
I tried to use "xhost +", but did not succeed. I also tried to " export XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority ", it did not work either.

here is some detail of my system.
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catdog at wei-H8QG6:~$ export DISPLAY=:0.0
catdog at wei-H8QG6:~$ xhost +
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
xhost:  unable to open display ":0.0"
catdog at wei-H8QG6:~$ ps aux|grep X
catdog   15983  0.0  0.0  13588   920 pts/12   S+   23:34   0:00 grep --color=auto X
root     31779  0.3  0.0 156600 48244 tty7     Ss+  May13  36:32 /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
catdog at wei-H8QG6:~$ uname -a
Linux wei-H8QG6 3.13.0-46-generic #79~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 10 20:25:33 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
catdog at wei-H8QG6:~$ xeyes -display :0.0
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
Error: Can't open display: :0.0
catdog at wei-H8QG6:~$ xauth list 
wei-H8QG6/unix:15  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  936664cd6304286ff79270c271ed3189
wei-H8QG6/unix:13  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  b11a44d6fb0786b816c73adf6bb0d361
wei-H8QG6/unix:14  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  b11a44d6fb0786b816c73adf6bb0d361
wei-H8QG6/unix:11  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  b77e756d05b97bdbade08e384c144a73
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-----Original Message-----
From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 11:16 PM
To: Di Cheng
Cc: ParaView Developers
Subject: Re: [Paraview-developers] Remote rendering requirement of account privilege?

You may want to check this (and related documentation) out:
http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/xhost.1.html

Utkarsh

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Di Cheng <chengdi at imech.ac.cn> wrote:
> Hi, All
>
> I am running a remote pvserver on the Ubuntu server 12.04, when I was using old account, it can be run in remote rendering mode with option: "-display localhost:0". When I login as another user, I cannot. And when I connect it from windows, it pops up a window with some information to tell me I cannot do remote rendering.
>
> I do not know how remote rendering works, but it seems it requires some account privileges. How can I solve this problem? I have compared those two account, new account belongs to more groups. What can I do to deal with this problem? Using sudo?
>
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