# Accessing MRVIEW - QOpenGLWidget: Failed to create context

**URL:** https://community.mrtrix.org/t/accessing-mrview-qopenglwidget-failed-to-create-context/6136
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 21, 2022, 11:04am UTC](https://community.mrtrix.org/t/accessing-mrview-qopenglwidget-failed-to-create-context/6136 "2022-10-21T11:04:38Z")
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### Author: ![sranon](https://community.mrtrix.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@sranon](https://community.mrtrix.org/u/sranon)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2022, 11:04am UTC](https://community.mrtrix.org/t/accessing-mrview-qopenglwidget-failed-to-create-context/6136/1 "2022-10-21T11:04:38Z")

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I am new to MRtrix and have to access MRtrix via my university HPC cluster. I have a Mac (macOS Monterey Version 12.6). After adding MRtrix to my BASH profile, when I try to open mrview, I get the following error message…

QOpenGLWidget: Failed to create context  
qt.qpa.backingstore: composeAndFlush: QOpenGLContext creation failed  
qt.qpa.backingstore: composeAndFlush: makeCurrent() failed

Does anyone know how to get around this?

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### Author: ![jdtournier](https://community.mrtrix.org/user_avatar/community.mrtrix.org/jdtournier/32/2594_2.png) [@jdtournier](https://community.mrtrix.org/u/jdtournier)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://community.mrtrix.org/t/accessing-mrview-qopenglwidget-failed-to-create-context/6136/2 "2022-10-24T14:39:17Z")

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If you’re trying to use `mrview` locally, I suggest you look through [this wiki article](https://community.mrtrix.org/t/remote-display-issues/2547). Getting remote rendering over X11 on modern OpenGL apps is no longer supported by Xorg themselves. Things are a bit up in the air at the moment, but hopefully there will eventually be a workable solution. Many people do manage to get some form of display going, but it’s definitely not as simple as I would have liked…