ssh -X ..., I or Firefox doesn't understand X Forwarding

[Joel Goguen]

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Rick Berger wrote:
> I'm running 7.10 on my pc and 8.10 on my laptop. Both are running sshd
> and I've been connecting say from the pc to the laptop using 'ssh -X
> rick at laptop' in a Terminal window. Now from the laptop's prompt in the
> terminal window I type "firefox" and I get one of two possible outcomes;
> 1 if Firefox 2 is already running on my pc I just get another instance
> of it, and 2 if pc is not running Firefox I get Firefox 3 running from
> my laptop displayed on my pc, which is what I want. But then when I
> click on my pc's Firefox icon it runs another instance of the laptop's
> Firefox 3 not its Firefox. Obviously, I or Firefox doesn't understand X
> Forwarding. Can someone explain what's going on? 
> 
>  
Firefox does some funny things checking to see if it's already running.
 To skip this, run Firefox like this and it won't do this checking:

firefox -no-remote

That will let you have Firefox running locally and start a new instance
from the remote machine that doesn't care whether it's already running
or not.


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Joel Goguen
Ubuntu User #15951
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