[CentOS] Running firefox on a remote host on centos-4
Joshua Baker-LePain
jlb17 at duke.edu
Wed Aug 16 13:13:57 UTC 2006
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 at 2:47pm, José Traver wrote
> 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
>> up its own firefox session even if I was running firefox on the system
>> from I which I sshed. Those days seem to be gone. No matter what I try,
>> if I've got firefox running on my local desktop, the remote firefox command
>> just fires off another instance of the local firefox session.
>>
>> I've got several boxes running monitoring daemons reporting via http only
>> to the localhost, so this was a handy feature for me. Is there any
>> official way to get it back? If not, I guess I'll have to hack a
>> 'localfirefox' script that doesn't do the nasty mozilla-xremote-client
>> trick.
>>
>> Ah, progress... *sigh*
>>
>
> Did you try this in your X-forwarded ssh session?
>
> firefox -display $DISPLAY
That still opens another window of the local instance.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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