ssh -Y user at remotecomputer then run firefox From man ssh -Y Enables trusted X11 forwarding. John Masters wrote: > > > On 8/14/06, *Joshua Baker-LePain* <jlb17 at duke.edu > <mailto: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 > <mailto: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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >