I'm curious why you thought it would be fast?  Running Chimera remotely is a recipe for slow interaction.  Chimera works best when it is running locally on your computer (and not in a virtual machine) and the data is on your computer.  That also avoids any graphics driver differences between the remote server and your local workstation that cause bugs.  Running Chimera locally on your computer would probably fix your movie making issues too.

That said,  it is possible to make the remote use of Chimera less slow.    If the remote server has a discrete graphics card and the corresponding graphics driver installed, ask the remote system administrator to install virtualgl.  Virtualgl does the 3D graphics on the server and copies an image back to your computer.  The interaction will still be slow unless both the remote server and your computer are on the same local network, but it can make it more usable.

    HTH,

    Greg

The refresh rate of Chimera running on a linux server is very slow. I'm connected to the server with an ssh client with X server.  I wonder if it's because Chimera is not configured properly or possibly the X server. I also tried to make some movies but they are always blank (black screen). Any suggestions? 

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