[CentOS] Running firefox on a remote host on centos-4
Joshua Baker-LePain
jlb17 at duke.eduWed Aug 16 13:13:57 UTC 2006
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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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