Changes between Version 17 and Version 18 of Usage/OpenGL

Timestamp:

09/11/15 08:29:02 (5 years ago)

Author:

Antoine Martin

Comment:

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Usage/OpenGL

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 You can run [https://www.opengl.org/ OpenGL] applications in an xpra session in a number of ways:
 * by default the [/wiki/Xdummy] display server supports software opengl - but your proprietary drivers may interfere with this
-* by running the xpra session directly on a "real" X11 server using an accelerated display driver - this is hard to setup and undocumented: you need to use the {{{xvfb}}} switch to start an accelerated X11 server (modified xorg.conf)
+* by running the xpra session directly on a "real" X11 server using an accelerated display driver - this is hard to setup and undocumented: you need to use the {{{xvfb}}} switch to start an accelerated X11 server (modified xorg.conf), or use the {{{--use-display}}} switch
 * by [/wiki/ShadowServer shadowing] an existing accelerated X11 server (sub-optimal)
 * by using [http://www.virtualgl.org/ VirtualGL]
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 If you application is suid, you may also need to chmod it.
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+Applications launched in this way are tied to two displays: the one they run on which started by xpra and the one that provides the opengl drivers, if either one of those displays is stopped then the application will crash.
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