Is there a way to control Blender's GUI remotely? I would like to control Blender on a remote server (Ubuntu, local network) from my Notebook (Windows 7).

Until now I evaluated the following configurations, none of them works satisfactorily.

1 VNC (followed this tutorial)

Result: Applications like Firefox, Libre-Office work but Blender's UI is rendered incomplete and unusable.



2 MobaXTerm

MobaXTerm supports SSH and comes with its own X-Server:
Again firefox and other apps work but Blender crashes:

$ blender
Color management: using fallback mode for management
connect failed: No such file or directory
X Error of failed request:  GLXBadRenderRequest
  Major opcode of failed request:  146 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  1 (X_GLXRender)
  Serial number of failed request:  154
  Current serial number in output stream:  179


3 Run Ubuntu under VMWare and Tunnel X through SSH

Blender starts flawless but the connection (100MBit/s) is so slow that it takes 2-3s to open a menu. Instructions on AskUbuntu

Is there an alternative to the methods I tried?

Solution

The MobaXterm settings that worked for me:
The latest version of MobaXterm works great with Blender! I just had to check the "Hardware OpenGL acceleration" in order to make it work (under "Settings" --> "Configuration" --> "X11" tab.

I started a SSH connection with compression enabled in order to lower bandwidth usage and started Blender which now works correctly.

I am running the latest free version of MobaXterm from http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net and my Windows computer has a nVidia Geforce GT640 with the latest nVidia drivers.

I hope this helps!