Re: ssh with X forwarding runs on the wrong machine

Nigel Wade <nmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Ian wrote:

On 22 Jan, 17:01, Ian <ian.gro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

/and/ firefox is running locally, I get prompted or my password on the
other machine ... and then another local instance of firefox starts.
Close the local firefox and the same command runs the remote
application.

Wackier and wackier. If I am running firefox on a remote machine then
any attempt to run firefox locally (either clicking the icon or typing
firefox in a terminal) gets me another copy on the remote machine.

Ian

When firefox starts up it checks if there is already an instance of firefox
which is displaying on the local X server. If there is it sends a message to
that instance asking it to post a new window, and then exits. I'm not sure of
the exact X mechanism it uses, I thought it was the X shared memory extension,
but disabling this with the --no-xshm option doesn't restore normality.

It's a bloody nuisance when you want to have multiple instances of firefox
running on different systems...


It is actually in a shell script, not in the C code. Ie, you can change the
behaviour if you wish and you understand the shell script. But again which
shell script I do not remember (try /usr/bin/firefox)

.

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