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

John Masters jkmasters at gmail.com
Mon Aug 14 21:30:31 UTC 2006


On 8/14/06, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 at 10:05pm, John Masters wrote
> > On 8/14/06, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at 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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