[lug] ssh -X question

[Bamm Visscher]

The issue is explained here: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html

"When Netscape Navigator is invoked with the -remote argument, it does
not open a window, but instead connects to and controls an
already-existing process. The argument to the -remote switch is an Xt
action to invoke, with optional arguments.

Remote control is implemented using X properties, so the two processes
need not be running on the same machine, and need not share a file
system. "


I think you can use `firefox -no-remote`.  Depends on how the shell
script that actually starts firefox works.

Bamm


On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Kenneth D Weinert
<kenw at quarter-flash.com> wrote:
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> I'm a bit confused.  I was under the impression that if I ssh into a
> different machine with the X forwarding option that any program I ran
> would run *on that machine* and the display would be redirected to the
> machine I logged in from.
>
> This appears to be true for everything *except* my browser. Well,
> firefox at any rate.
>
> I have a new  64 bit laptop and the VPN from work doesn't support
> that, so I ssh into the older desktop and fire up the browser to start
> the VPN.
>
> However, that doesn't work as the browser appears to want to start up
> things on my local machine.
>
> I had the same browser issue with trying to configure CUPS -
> localhost:631 from the remoted browser shows the configuration on the
> local machine.
>
> Is the browser/firefox just a special case?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ken
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