On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:27 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >>>>> >>>> I've always been able to ssh -X to a server, and then run firefox >>>> -no-remote, so that it runs ON THAT SERVER, NOT on my workstation. All >>>> of a sudden, I can't. Is that clearer? AFAIK, my manager hasn't put any >>>> new security in place (he'd have told me - mostly, he's adding logging). >>>> But the latest ff *seems* as though it's trying to read my home caches, >>>> not obeying what ff's own info says it will do. >>> >>> Let me add one more thing: I have no trouble running other X, like >>> xterm. >> >> Firefox is an odd case in when you start it, it looks for an existing, >> running instance and if found, starts a new window in that process. >> I'm not sure how that relates to your issue, but it's not like most X > <snip> > It should not relate. Yes, my home directory is NFS mounted; however, the > ff -? shows > <...> > Firefox options > <...> > -no-remote Open new instance, not a new window in running instance. > <...> > It should open a new window, with the process running on the server, but > opening the X window on my desktop. I've done this for years, and it does > what it says. > > Anyone else tried it, with the latest update of ff via yum? > Aside from the weirdness of using the --no-remote option to specify that in fact you do want a remote display, I can verify that I see the same thing. It looks like firefox-3.6.18-1.el5.centos does the same, so it is not a recent change. However, when I want to run GUI programs remotely I find it much, much nicer to have freenx running on the server and connect via the nomachine NX client amd take the whole desktop. And in that case if I've left one running, it is still there when I reconnect to the session. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com