Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3138 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang.rosenauer@xxxxxxx>]

On 2004-12-01 at 22:20:30 -0600, Jim Sabatke wrote (shortened):

> I don't understand how this can happen, as I thought ssh would run the 
> program on the remote box and only display it on the local box.  Is 
> there some sort of option I'm missing?  I ssh to the remote box with 
> "ssh -X name@machine"

This effect can happen if you run firefox at the local machine while
sshing to the remote machine.
The start-scripts (at least some of them) for firefox check via X
capabilities if another instance of the same user is running on the
desktop. This is the case here. It recognizes the running process and
open another window of it locally.
In fact you only used the remote start-script to run firefox.

Try to export a modified username on the remote machine:

  export USER=$USER-remote

and start firefox within this environment. This could fix the problem.



   Wolfgang Rosenauer

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