GLFW Error: GLX: Failed to make context current when using with ROS
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- [X] I have searched for [similar issues](https://github.com/isl-org/Open3D/issues).
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### Describe the issue
I have been trying to use open3d to visualize point clouds that are sent through a ROS node. As a subscriber node, it reads a point cloud, and just displays on open3d. I get this error 'GLFW Error: GLX: Failed to make context current when using with ROS'.
However, bizarrely, if I do not have the display function in the callback, and if I write a dummy function to just display a random point cloud, and call the function directly, it works. As soon as the display function is called within a subscriber callback component, I get this GLX error, which seems very weird. Here is a rough snippet.
```
class Visualizer:
def __init__(self):
self.vis = o3d.visualization.Visualizer()
rospy.Subscriber("/callbacktopic", String, self.callback)
rospy.spin()
def callback(self, data):
self.runner()
def self.runner(self):
pcd = o3d.geometry.PointCloud()
pcd.points = np.random.rand(10,3)
hull, _ = pcd.compute_convex_hull()
self.vis.add_geometry(hull)
```
This fails at the last step with the error in the title, but with a small change to the init function
```
def __init__(self):
self.vis = o3d.visualization.Visualizer()
self.runner()
```
This works, i.e. it is able to display a point cloud. This seems like a very weird error caused in open3d, and I'm not sure what the issue is.
If I use ```o3d.visualization.draw_geometries([pcd])``` it fails with a similar GLX error but not the same.
I have an NVidia MX330 graphics card. Interestingly, if I switch to intel graphics, the error goes away.
### Steps to reproduce the bug
```python
import numpy as np
import open3d
class Visualizer:
def __init__(self):
self.vis = o3d.visualization.Visualizer()
rospy.Subscriber("/callbacktopic", String, self.callback)
rospy.spin()
def callback(self, data):
self.runner()
def self.runner(self):
pcd = o3d.geometry.PointCloud()
pcd.points = np.random.rand(10,3)
hull, _ = pcd.compute_convex_hull()
self.vis.add_geometry(hull)
```
### Error message
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### Expected behavior
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### Open3D, Python and System information
```markdown
- Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04
- Python version: Python 2.7 (Since I need ROS)
- Open3D version: 0.9
- System type: x84
- Is this remote workstation?: no
- How did you install Open3D?: pip
- Compiler version gcc 7.5
```
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