macOS Core Shell X11 forwarding problem

Core Shell Report Bug
1

Hi,

I am using Core Shell with X11 forwarding in macOS with XQuartz 2.7.11 installed. One of the software I need to forward just 'freeze' once displayed and gave me below error messages:
'''
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 2
Extension: 149 (Uknown extension)
Minor opcode: 3 (Unknown request)
Resource id: 0x0
'''
Do you have any suggestions to fix this problem?

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The obvious question first. Do you have X11 installed on your mac? X11 is no longer part of macOS, hasn't been for many years/versions.

https://www.xquartz.org

When I need X11 I use a vm with native linux. See this thread, https://forum.linuxcnc.org/38-general-linuxcnc-questions/31865-x11-forwarding-to-macos-sierra

/Mikael

4

Hi Mikael,

Thanks for the response.
Yes, XQuartz 2.7.11 installed on the MacBook. I totally agree with you, one solution is to use a VM with Linux. But, I would like to use it directly with macOS, if it possible.

5

Hi,

I realised while using VirtualBox with Linux:
To forward the software UI run remotely on a Linux computer to my MacBook normally, I need to choose 'VMSVGA' in 'Graphics Controller' option and activate '3D acceleration' option.
Any ideas to do it in MacOS Core Shell?

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There is nothing that corresponds to that in macOS as far as I know. The whole reason it's there in Vbox, VMware and Parallels is that they need to emulate a real graphics card.

Regarding XQuartz, I removed it long time ago on my mac since it works poorly and development seems to have stalled. Just got tired spending time to fix stuff.

/Mikael

7

Stumbled across this article this morning so I decided to test XQuartz again.

I have Docker for mac installed, https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/install/

I installed XQuartz again via Homebrew, brew cask install xquartz

Set the DISPLAY on my mac and opened up the permissions

DISPLAY=:0
xhost +

Started XQuartz and test it with xterm

Then I tested a few of the apps in the article like the xeyes

docker run --rm -ti -e DISPLAY=docker.for.mac.host.internal:0 fr3nd/xeyes

All those apps worked fine but some where pretty sluggish.

/Mikael