On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 04:50:30PM -0800, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > 2. Actually, I have 2 similar machines running Linux on both of them > 99.99% of the time. I have noticed that if I try to run netscape from my > other machine via network, it actually starts on my local machine. I am > not crazy!!!! If I have netscape running on machine I am sitting at and > connect to the second via ssh and start netscape there, what I get is the > second netscape running on my local machine. how do I know that? I see > which files it can access and when I do "exit" both netscape windows are > closed. However, if I do not have netscape running on my local computer > and just do ssh and start netscape from there, I do get what I want. > > Could some one explain how that can possibly happen? I repeat, I am not > crazy, it is happening for a fact, the question is how? The wrapper Debian uses to start Netscape first checks to see if it can find a running instance of Netscape on the current display, and if so just tells it to open a new window instead of creating a whole new process etc. Try 'netscape --no-remote', IIRC that will give you the behavior you expect. -- finger for GPG public key.
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