X11 forwarding through ssh on lxplus

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SL 6.X / SLC 6.X / CentOS 6.X / RHEL 6.X

I encountered a strange problem that causes OpenGL (GLX) applications to fail on SL6X, SLC6X, CentOS6X and RHEL6X (where X = 3 for the time being). Applications die with errors in form (I login to a remote machine, running one of these systems, using “ssh -X -Y”): […]$ glxinfo name of display: localhost:11.0 Error: couldn’t find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig […]$ glxgears Error: couldn’t get an RGB, Double-buffered visual […]$ root (…) Error in TGLWidget::CreateWindow: No good OpenGL visua…

See also:
CMSPublic → OpenGL and X11 problems