How does one view .png-files on p697?

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How does one view .png-files on p697? #65

Closed idaElken closed 3 years ago

idaElken commented 3 years ago

Hi,

On p33, one can do: xdg-open file.png it opens in spite of a message: "This tool has been deprecated, use 'gio open' instead."

On p697, if one does xdg-open file.png it gives this message: gvfs-open file:///fullpath/file.png: error opening location: No application is registered as handling this file.

On p697, using FileBrowser instead, this error appears: "Could not display 'file.png' There is no application installed for PNG image files."

png-files are the output when visualizeing CNVs. To do visual QC of the CNVs called, I need to look at the pictures. I can transfer to p33 but that seems a bit backwards if there is a different solution.

Do you have any advice?

/Ida

ofrei commented 3 years ago

Hi @idaElken Cool, I didn't know about xdg-open trick! For p697,

if you login through ThinLink to Linux, you could open a terminal, ssh -Y p697-appn-norment01, and use eog. Note -Y in the ssh command, that's important.
If you login through VMWare Horizon to Windows, open a browser (eitehr IE or Firefox) and drag&grop the image to browser window. Please let me know if it worked. But we need a better solution. It would be great to have eog on all login nodes, and a better viewer on windows.

idaElken commented 3 years ago

Brillant, thanks. I'm teaching the computational scientist something about TSD - my proudest moment :-)

No luck for eog on Linux. I can try the VMWare H to Windows later but for me personally, I may end up preferring moving to p697sharedp33 and view from the p33 linux end [and then erase it after, of course :-) ]

ofrei commented 3 years ago

No luck for eog on Linux Hm... it works for me. Could you run hostname before ssh -Y? It should show p697-tl01-l.tsd.usit.no. I.e. it is important to run ssh command on a new terminal window, so that it runs directly on the login node. If you have mulptile nested ssh sessions then -Y will not help to bring graphical user interface back to your login node

idaElken commented 3 years ago

Apologies - that WAS the issue - not having opened up a new terminal window. It works now so problem solved. :-) Thanks a lot!

ofrei commented 3 years ago

Great!