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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060814/d9a2a09d/attachment-0005.html>