[Bulk] Re: ssh -X ..., I or Firefox doesn't understand X Forwarding

[Rick Berger]

Thanks for the suggestion, it doesn't make a difference but has given me
insight into other aspects of ssh. 
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 19:16 -0500, Jared Greenwald wrote:
> Did you try "ssh -Y"?
> 
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Rick Berger <rberger at rogers.com> 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?
> >
> >
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