GdkGLExt-WARNING **: Window system doesn't support OpenGL

Question

I have wrote a c++ program to display camera picture using opencv command imshow, worked perfectly on Wheezy. Lately I've updated my RPI to latest Jessie. Now I get the GdkGLExt error when running my program through a VNC client (direct connection doesn't have any problem).

On the raspberry forum suggested to installing libgl1-mesa-swx11 and it worked, but when compiling get the following errors:

usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL
usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGLU

Elsewhere suggested to installing libgl1-mesa-dev and libglu1-mesa-devto resolve above errors, but installing these makes removing libgl1-mesa-swx11.

Any help appreciated (except downgrading to Wheezy:)).

Answer 1

Despite the fact that direct connecting to RPI (hdmi interface) instead of tightvnc has no problem I came up using x11vnc and it worked like a charm. With x11vnc you have connecting to the main display interface, read further information and configuration in Code Chief's Space.

Note: if you have problem with your keyboard (like me) and your keyboard doesn't repeat when you hold a key then add -repeat argument to the x11vnc start-up file.