[BUG] Setting view while a panel is opened in a remote session breaks the app

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If you launch the app remotely, and try to set view (ctx.ops.set_view or ctx.trigger(“set_view”)) while a panel is opened, the app breaks. Any of the plugins that involve a panel (reverse image search, voxelgpt, etc.) is therefore not working when launching fiftyone through remote.

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Python operator

class TestSetView(foo.Operator):
    @property
    def config(self):
        return foo.OperatorConfig(
            name="test_set_view",
            label="Test set view",
            dynamic=True,
        )

    def execute(self, ctx):
        view = ctx.dataset.select(["random_sample_id"])
        ctx.ops.set_view(view=view)

Typescript for panel

export default function TestPanel() {
    const executor = useOperatorExecutor("@test/test_set_view")

    return (
        <>
            <h1>Test Panel</h1>
            <Button onClick={() => executor.execute()}>Close and set view</Button>
        </>
    );
}

Server command line (Linux)

fiftyone app launch --remote --wait -1 --port 5151

Local command line (Mac)

fiftyone app connect --destination remote_server_address --port 5151

System information

• OS Platform and Distribution (e.g., Linux Ubuntu 22.04):
• Python version (python --version): 3.10.12
• FiftyOne version (fiftyone --version): 0.23.8
• FiftyOne installed from (pip or source): pip

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Once you open the app remotely (whether its through
fiftyone app launch --remote --wait -1 --port 5151 and fiftyone app connect as described earlier, or through a jupyter notebook on a remote ssh) and try to set view in however ways possible through a python / js operator while any panel is still open, the app will break and redirect you to the default fiftyone page.

You can also do select_group_slices(media_type=“image”) and the likes on the app directly while a panel is open and cause the same behaviour.

Once it breaks, the app doesn’t work anymore. it continuously states "Could not connect session, trying again in 10 seconds"

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