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| This does not work if RStudio is started in a VNC session. RStudio will not start and display an error messages like the following: | This does not work if RStudio is started in a VNC session or when using X11 forwarding. RStudio will not start and display an error messages like the following: |
Using RStudio in a VNC session
Rstudio per default wants to use a GPU for rendering. Disabling this by setting the following environment variable before starting rstudio is recommended as a solution to similar problems:
export RSTUDIO_CHROMIUM_ARGUMENTS='--disable-gpu'
This does not work if RStudio is started in a VNC session or when using X11 forwarding. RStudio will not start and display an error messages like the following:
WebEngineContext used before QtWebEngine::initialize() or OpenGL context creation failed.
To use RStudio in a VNC session, add the line desktop.renderingEngine=software below the section [General] to the file $HOME/.config/RStudio/desktop.ini.
The file might then look something like this:
[General] cookies=@Invalid() desktop.renderingEngine=software [mainwindow] geometry=@ByteArray(...