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

[Rick Berger]

Joel, Thanks it works. Have you any idea how when your logged to a shell
on another machine your machine could even see the contents of the
remote command line?
 
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 20:35 -0400, Joel Goguen wrote:
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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
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