So after much trial and error I have managed to get X11 forwarding work. My desktop in the office is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and I use XQuartz to ssh in from my MacBook Pro. When I ssh in, I get the following on the terminal:
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-128-generic x86_64)
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com
* Management: https://landscape.canonical.com
* Support: https://ubuntu.com/advantage
I know the X11 forwarding is working because I can get FireFox to forward, but its extremely slow and buggy.
But I cannot get Google Chrome to forward. The terminal gives the following on running the command google-chrome:
ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
[10497:10497:0702/053002.891053:ERROR:gl_context_glx.cc(227)] Couldn't make context current with X drawable.
[10497:10497:0702/053002.891090:ERROR:gpu_info_collector.cc(63)] gl::GLContext::MakeCurrent() failed
[10455:10549:0702/053003.740008:ERROR:bus.cc(394)] Failed to connect to the bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type (examples of valid types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix")
and XQuartz just displays a blank window. On ctrl-cing the process and exiting the terminal further spews more error messages (which I can post if required). But can someone help me out and tell me what I am doing wrong or if I have not got x11 forwarding set up properly? I basically followed the procedure here (also xauth was already installed for me) so I just edited the configuration files.
Try starting Chrome using its SwiftShader software renderer - which was integrated into Chrome in 2017:
Chrome has hardware acceleration turned on by default, and I think this is causing you the issue. Try starting it with: