I was just asked this same question twice in a short time, so I guess that is a sign that others might want to know the answer too.
The short version of the question is: "How can I get freesurfer to work from a remote VNC setup?"
The answer is, thanks to a hint from Paul Raines, very simple. When you set up your vncserver, use this command: vncserver.glx instead of the usual "vncserver". If you do, then the needed software will be included to draw tksurfer images, and then you can freesurf remotely.
Happy surfing!
Daniel
Tommi Raij wrote:
Hi Daniel,
I saw from the Freesurfer list that you asked Bruce about a year ago how to use tksurfer scripts from remote VNC. Bruce suggested you use
setenv renderoffscreen 1
before running tksurfer, but also said that the function might be broken.
I am trying the get some semi-massive visualization scripts to work from the other end of a VNC connection (on a Windows ME system) and cannot make this work, and keep receiving the kind of errors that you apparently encountered:
surfer: single buffered window no glx extension! surfer: failed, trying double buffered window Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display "1.0". Window type not found! surfer: failed, no suitable display found
Were you succesful in making this work, and if so, how?
Thanks,
Tommi