Open Google Chrome in another display

Question

I have problem with running Google Chrome in specified display:

vncserver :11 -geometry 1024x2000
google-chrome --display :11

vncerver starts fine, bot browser runs in current display, not the :11. Below some logs:

New 'localhost:11 (hsz)' desktop is localhost:11

Starting applications specified in /home/hsz/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/hsz/.vnc/freedomes:11.log

/home/hsz/.vnc/freedomes:11.log

Xvnc TigerVNC 1.3.1 - built Mar 20 2014 13:14:03
Copyright (C) 1999-2011 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt)
See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC.
Underlying X server release 11500000, The X.Org Foundation

Initializing built-in extension VNC-EXTENSION
Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
Initializing built-in extension XTEST
Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
Initializing built-in extension SYNC
Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC
Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
Initializing built-in extension RENDER
Initializing built-in extension RANDR
Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
Initializing built-in extension RECORD
Initializing built-in extension DPMS
Initializing built-in extension X-Resource
Initializing built-in extension XVideo
Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
Initializing built-in extension GLX

Fri Jun 13 12:24:32 2014
 vncext:      VNC extension running!
 vncext:      Listening for VNC connections on all interface(s), port 5911
 vncext:      created VNC server for screen 0

Fri Jun 13 12:24:44 2014
 Connections: accepted: 127.0.0.1::50815
 SConnection: Client needs protocol version 3.8
 SConnection: Client requests security type VeNCrypt(19)
 VNCSConnST:  Server default pixel format depth 24 (32bpp) little-endian rgb888

google-chrome --display :11

[6658:6658:0613/122602:ERROR:nss_util.cc(853)] After loading Root Certs, loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018
Created new window in existing browser session.

After calling:

DISPLAY=localhost:11.0 google-chrome

I get:

[7212:7212:0613/123350:ERROR:nss_util.cc(853)] After loading Root Certs, loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display "localhost:11.0".
[7242:7242:0613/123351:ERROR:gl_surface_glx.cc(407)] glxQueryVersion failed
[7242:7242:0613/123351:ERROR:gl_surface_x11.cc(56)] GLSurfaceGLX::InitializeOneOff failed.
[7242:7242:0613/123351:ERROR:gpu_child_thread.cc(132)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization
Created new window in existing browser session.

Answer 1

You can specify which display to use using the DISPLAY environment variable.

Use the following snippet:

# export DISPLAY=localhost:11.0
# google-chrome --disable-webgl

The VNC server does not support OpenGL extensions. The --disable-webgl is to make sure Chrome doesn't try to use OpenGL/WebGL.