[vtkusers] Qt5/VTK application does not start correctly (with X11 forwarding)

[Sophonet]

Yes, well, I am using a Windows machine and putty. Putty has an option 
in it's configuration dialog. I don't know whether the X connection is 
encrypted (-X) or not (-Y).


On 2017-08-11 14:31, David Gobbi wrote:
> How are you doing the X11 forwarding?  Are you using "ssh -Y"?
> 
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 6:20 AM, Sophonet
> <vtk12af6bc42 at kant.sophonet.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> an application using VTK 8.0.0 and Qt 5.9.1 (built with -opengl
>> desktop) does not start correctly (using X11 forwarding). After
>> displaying an error message "failed to get the current screen
>> resources", there is another error message
>> 
>> vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x55f891d77a80): GL version 2.1 with the
>> gpu_shader4 extension is not supported by your graphics driver but
>> is required for the new OpenGL rendering backend. Please update your
>> OpenGL driver. If you are using Mesa please make sure you have
>> version 10.6.5 or later and make sure your driver in Mesa supports
>> OpenGL 3.2.
>> 
>> However, my Ubuntu 17.04 system has Mesa 17.0.7, glxgears works fine
>> (using X11 forwarding) and glxinfo shows (among other things) the
>> correct driver - see below, so I am a bit puzzled what is going on.
>> Any hints?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> sophonet
>> 
>> P.S.: The first call in my application's main() function is
>> QSurfaceFormat::setDefaultFormat, see below. The same application
>> runs fine and without problems on Windows.
>> 
>> #if QT_VERSION >= 0x050500
>> // before initializing QApplication, set the default surface
>> format, see documentation
>> 
>> QSurfaceFormat::setDefaultFormat(QVTKOpenGLWidget::defaultFormat());
>> #endif
>> 
>> GLX version: 1.2
>> GLX extensions:
>> GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample,
>> GLX_EXT_import_context,
>> GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
>> GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer,
>> GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
>> GLX_SGI_make_current_read
>> Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
>> Vendor: VMware, Inc. (0xffffffff)
>> Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 4.0, 128 bits) (0xffffffff)
>> Version: 17.0.7
>> Accelerated: no
>> Video memory: 3949MB
>> Unified memory: no
>> Preferred profile: core (0x1)
>> Max core profile version: 3.3
>> Max compat profile version: 3.0
>> Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
>> Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0
>> OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
>> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 4.0, 128 bits)
>> OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7
>> OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30