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

John Masters jkmasters at gmail.com
Mon Aug 14 21:05:14 UTC 2006


On 8/14/06, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 at 9:25pm, John Masters wrote
>
> > On 8/14/06, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 at 9:07am, Peter Kjellström wrote
> >>
> >> > On Friday 11 August 2006 22:15, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> >> >> Back in the day (read: before the latest firefox update), I used to
> be
> >> >> able to ssh to a remote box, run 'firefox -local', and have that box
> >> fire
> >> >
> >> > hmm.. -no-xshm works for me, never heard of -local :-)
> >>
> >> Really?  It doesn't work for me.  I still get another instance of the
> >> local firefox session.  Ditto for --no-xshm, --noshm, and -noshm.
> >>
> > I may be missing something here but all I do is ssh -X remote.domain
>
> 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.

John
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