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On 7/25/19 4:44 PM, Simon Becherer wrote:
Hi,
i use thunderbird sometimes over ssh. as i understand ssh normally should run and use all (files) (not hardware) resources from server.
why did thunderbird do it in this way:
if i have an thunderbird open local and ssh thunderbird to a server, it will not open a second thunderbird, it will pop up the already local thunderbird.
You can fix this by calling thunderbird / firefox with the --new-instance paramater, which will force another independent copy to open
if i have no local thunderbird open, and i ssh thunderbird, the thunderbird from server will opend and i have all contacts+on-server-stored mails available. BUT when i then like to compose a mail and i have on server my privat pgp (enigmail) key, i am NOT able to send a mail, because thunderbird seems to use keys they are stored local.
i do not understand, thunderbird seems to mix local and server files. simmilar is with firefox if you look into the bookmarks.
firefox doesn't mix bookmarks with --new-instance atleast not here atm, if you are not using that you are probably connecting to the locally running instance, to make it easy to tell I normally set different themes for my remote versions of firefox
first question is why? and second how could i "really" use the ssh-thunderbird and not only parts of it when i use ssh?
I suspect --new-instance will fix this but I didn't try. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org