Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3349 mails)

[Jim Sabatke <jsabatke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kastus wrote:

> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 10:07:38AM -0700, David Bear wrote:
>  
>
> > Same thing works in reverse. starting a firefox on system2 first, then
> > comming back to system will, you will get another instance of firefox
> > that is actually running on system 2.
> >    
>
> This is by design.
>
>  
>
> > Anyone now a way to avoid this?
> >    
>
> I am not sure it is possible.
>
> -Kastus
>
>  
It can be done.  From the local box

xhost + (or however you want to restrict access)

From the remote box

firefox --display=localbox:0.0

and you should get a properly displayed instance of Firefox.

This is a really annoying "feature"

Jim