Re: [CentOS] Running firefox on a remote host on centos-4

ssh -Y user@remotecomputer then run firefox

From man ssh -Y Enables trusted X11 forwarding.

John Masters wrote:

On 8/14/06, *Joshua Baker-LePain* <jlb17@duke.edu mailto:jlb17@duke.edu> wrote:

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 at 10:05pm, John Masters wrote
> On 8/14/06, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@duke.edu
<mailto:jlb17@duke.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> Oh, I've got remote X working just fine.  It's just getting
firefox to
>> actually run on the remote box that's the issue.
>>
> Sorry, I'm not a Linux guru and I may be off centre here, but ssh -X
> remote.domain then at command prompt firefox opens up firefox on
my remote
> machine or gedit opens gedit or xxxx opens whatever X app.
Running bog
> standard CentOS 4.3 with no extra repos and all updates.

But what if you've already got firefox running on the local host,
then you
ssh to a remote host and try to run firefox there?  For me, that just
spawns another window of the local firefox session.

Ahh! I'm with you now. Didn't notice it was running a local copy. Sorry! I've tried the --no-xshm et al and, like you, just get a local copy. Googling didn't give me any relevant results either.

John

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