How to use WGLMakie in Jupyter Notebook through ssh?

[aramirezreyes]

This is a follow up to a discussion from slack (actually modifying the use case), but I think it deserves to be here so that we can work on it on an organized manner.

Case: I connect to a remote server via ssh. I launch a Jupyter notebook instance in this server, this goes back to my computer via the ssh channel.

Local machine:
  ssh -L 8889:localhost:8889 user@server -Y -X
At server:
  jupyter-notebook --no-browser --port=8889
Local machine's web browser:
  localhost:8889

Then, inside the jupyter notebook I try to use WGLMakie:

julia> using AbstractPlotting, WGLMakie; AbstractPlotting.inline!(true)
julia> plot(rand(10))

Result:
I get no plot, instead I get an error

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:8081
The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

Desired result: I see a nice looking plot in my browser.

How could I make this work?

[SimonDanisch]

With a bit of luck, changing the port to 8081 could make things work

[aramirezreyes]

Bad luck! Now the content was blocked by security policy. I am not sure of closing this or leaving it open so that someone else can find it when looking for a similar thing.

[SimonDanisch]

Ah, but I guess that means it works almost and should be fixable somehow!
Try setting ENV["WEBIO_HTTP_PORT"] = 8889 before using WGMakie and then use that port - this may help if only that specific port is unblocked...
Otherwise, it'd be nice to see the full error, maybe with a screenshot!

[aramirezreyes]

Great! I feel like it is almost there:

I am seeing an infitine loop of this:

in the Jupyter console
after doing plot(rand(10)),
but the cell never finishes evaluating.

[cossio]

Did you figure this out? I have same issue. I have to use WGLMakie since GLMakie doesn't work on the server due to some OpenGL issue.

[SimonDanisch]

Jupyter or Pluto?
With Pluto, this should work: https://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/documentation/remote/#wglmakie
IJulia is broken right now - i'm 90% done with a fix...

[cossio]

I use Jupyter. But I'll try Pluto.
Hope the fix gets there soon! Thanks

[cossio]

Any updates? This is what I am getting right now:

No plot 😞

CairoMakie works fine, though.

Pluto is not always an option, and CairoMakie is slow for large datasets. It would be nice to get this fixed for Jupyter.

[SimonDanisch]

I'm working on it: SimonDanisch/Bonito.jl#111
Maybe I can get it merged this week.

[cossio]

Nice, thanks. @SimonDanisch if that PR gets merged, it means that it will just work, without any extra config?

[SimonDanisch]

I'm aiming for that and it should be possible, so yes! Lets hope nothing too unexpected jinxes it :D

[cossio]

Good! Looking forward to it.

[frankier]

This should help #2405