[lug] ssh -X question

[Kenneth D Weinert]

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Just to complete the loop:

Yes, running firefox --no-remote did the trick.

Thanks to all for your input, it's greatly appreciated.


Bamm Visscher wrote:
> 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: 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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