yeah .. it would need to run X11 On 11/11/20 4:04 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 17:45, R C <cjvijf at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I do it all the time. >> >> >> make sure you forward X11, on the ssh server side, and login with >> ssh -X me at myhost.whatever >> >> start firefox with: >> >> /usr/bin/firefox -no-remote if you don't want the remote pages ending >> up in your local browser >> >> or if you don't care, just run firefox without -no-remote >> >> > Don't you have to make sure that the Firefox on the MacOS-X system is using > X11? It normally uses the native MacOS windowing system which is not X. > > > >> or however you start firefox on a mac. >> >> >> Ron >> >> >> On 11/11/20 3:39 PM, S Bob wrote: >>> Hi all; >>> >>> >>> I'm trying to setup an ssh tunnel so I can run firefox on a remote >>> laptop and have the display locally. >>> >>> >>> I have 2 laptops >>> >>> local = CentOS 7 >>> >>> remote = mac OSX 10.15.7 >>> >>> >>> I want to create an ssh tunnel on the local CentOS 7 laptop, then run >>> firefox on the mac with the display showing up on the CentOS laptop. >>> >>> Is this doable? >>> >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >