Not Working

[chelseas]

My remote server is a machine running ubuntu 16.
It has a display, but it is far away from me, in my office, so I am trying to use Remote X11 and Remote X11 (SSH) to forward the gui to my local machine.

I have installed both and the logs seem fine.
But when I run a process that requires the display I was getting this message:

GLFW error (code %d): %s 65544 b'X11: The DISPLAY environment variable is missing'

So I ran:

export DISPLAY=0

which then changed the error message to:

GLFW error (code %d): %s 65544 b'X11: Failed to open display 0'

Logs from Remote X11:

Setting up display for remote "ssh-remote".
Connecting with SSH. See Remote X11 (SSH) logs for more details.
DISPLAY = localhost:10.0
LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT = 1

Configuration changed. Updating display...

Setting up display for remote "ssh-remote".
Connecting with SSH. See Remote X11 (SSH) logs for more details.
DISPLAY = localhost:10.0
LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT = 1

Logs from Remote X11 (SSH):

Connecting to chelseas@myIP port 22
Connection ready. Setting up display...
Echo display command is: bash -c "echo DISPLAY=$DISPLAY"
----- Begin output from host -----

Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-88-generic x86_64)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com
 * Management:     https://landscape.canonical.com
 * Support:        https://ubuntu.com/advantage

291 packages can be updated.
0 updates are security updates.

New release '18.04.4 LTS' available.
Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.

*** System restart required ***
Last login: Tue Jul 21 17:15:35 2020 from 171.66.180.194

bash -c "echo DISPLAY=$DISPLAY"
chelseas@Cupertino:~$ bash -c "echo DISPLAY=$DISPLAY"
DISPLAY=localhost:10.0

----- End output from host -----
Display ready: localhost:10.0

And the settings are:
Remote X11:Display
0

[joelspadin]

What OS is your local machine running? As noted in #21 there are some issues when the local machine is running Linux that I haven't yet been able to figure out.

[chelseas]

My local machine is running macOS Catalina

[joelspadin]

I don't have any way to test on a Mac, but someone mentioned in another issue that they need to connect to something other than localhost. on Mac. I'm working on adding a setting to change that.

[dtamayom]

I am having the same problem on a Mac, could please point out the issue where someone makes it work by connecting to something other than localhost? Otherwise, I hope you manage to add the setting, it would be a life saver. Thank you!

[joelspadin]

I just published version 1.5.0, which changes to using a Unix socket to communicate with the X11 server on Linux and macOS. It is now working for me on Linux, but I don't have any way to test on macOS. Could you check if this is fixed now?