Hi, I've been playing with X forwarding and ssh and run across an interesting phenomenon, maybe you guys can help. First off, x-forwarding is working fine and many X programs forward with ease (love it!). I've tried various permutations of iceweasel command lines to launch my remote iceweasel on the local display (to use bookmarks and stored passwords, etc). With an iceweasel running remotely, this doesn't work as I get the "Iceweasel is already running, but not responding..." dialog on the local display. So I killed the remote iceweasel and then re-ran it from inside ssh and it works fine -- I've got my sid iceweasel displaying on my wifes etch box. And I can run "iceweasel -new-window" just fine and pull up another window. But if I attach my screen session from the remote box and try to run iceweasel there it appears to hang, but in actuality, it is displaying the "iceweasel already running" dialog on the remote screen. If I add a --display=localhost:10.0 then I get that same dialog locally. So that sort of makes sense because screen was originally run on the remote machine. within a shell in screen, $DISPLAY=:0.0. within the plain ssh -X session $DISPLAY=localhost:10.0. Now here is the question -- can I split the iceweasel session across different displays, or if not, how can I run more than 1 iceweasel session simultaneously. I've tried -no-remote with no luck. A ps. I know: "why would you want to do that?!" because maybe I can? :)
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