hugin crashes at startup with remote display

A friend had made some nice pictures while on vacation that I wanted to show him how to stitch. My main machine is upstairs, but we were downstairs on the beamer. So I stitched the pano in an older version of hugin (forgot to do the chanting required to go to the newer version), and then needed a new feature so couldn't evade having to do the chants. Anyway, newer hugins crash with a remote display.

I suspected that it is the openGL, as Hugin remembers if I had the GL-preview open. However this turns out not to be the case. On my normal workstation I opened hugin, closed the GL window, quit hugin. Next I started hugin again, and indeed it didn't pop up the GL window. Next with display on the beamer and still it crashes.

So... while older versions of hugin can run on one machine and display on another this no longer works on recent hugin versions. (I have a hg version from december).

assurancetourix:~/knop> hugin DSC05514-DSC05527.pto
The program 'hugin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.
  (Details: serial 697 error_code 1 request_code 138 minor_code 1)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
assurancetourix:~/knop>