[Paraview] client/server display problem

[Jack Gundrum]

Hi Christoph,

So when paraview running in parallel tries to open a process on other 
nodes it uses X forwarding? The X forwarding from my
cluster server to laptop client works fine if I dont run in parallel 
(i.e. mpirun) so X forwarding is working untill I use mpirun.

Should I be compiling paraview with offscreen rendering to avoid X 
forwarding among cluster nodes?



Christoph Moder wrote:

>> I have paraview compiled with mpich using rsh instead of ssh, would 
>> this create a problem when running.
>
>
> On many systems rsh is a link to ssh.
>
>> My server connects to my client and launches the splashscreen but 
>> then hangs with "unable to open display".
>> Everything works fine without mpirun?
>
>
> Remote connections to the X server are often disabled (startx 
> --nolisten tcp). But ssh can be told to forward all X connections; 
> write in your ~/.ssh/config:
> HOST *
>   ForwardX11 yes
>
> Christoph