Re: remote X weirdness
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 07:09:46AM +0100, Neil Youngman wrote:
> On Sunday 09 Oct 2005 22:18, Willie McKemie wrote:
> > I "ssh -XC <ip>", then "firefox" or "firefox&". Sure enough, I get
> > Firefox on my local display. But, it gives every indication that it is
> > a local Firefox, not Firefox on the remote box; the URL "file:///"
> > shows the local filesystem. Other X apps run through the ssh ARE on
> > the remote box.
> >
> > What the heck is going on here? And how to I fix it?
>
> Unlike most other programs you'll use, "firefox" is a shell script wrapper,
> not the actual binary that is run. I'm guessing that what's going in is that
> the shell script wrapper is doing something "clever". My best guess at this
> point is that an existing copy of firefox is running on your local host and
> the shell script detects this and asks it to pop up a new window, instead of
> starting a new instance.
As unlikely as it seems to me, you MUST be right!. Giving firefox a
"-width" parameter caused the remote's firefox to appear on my local
display! Amusingly, the width parameter did not influence the width of
the firefox window. Earlier, I tested remote display of an old mozilla
browser; it behaved the same as firefox.
Next time I have a local Firefox down, I will test and see if the
symptoms occur if and only if a local firefox is running.
Thanks for the insight! I have seen this problem for years and not
really believed my eyes. I guess there are few of us who attempt to
run firefox remotely.
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