[nylug-talk] ssh, DISPLAY, mozilla

[Pann McCuaig]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 23:02, Seth Rothenberg wrote:

> I have a strange problem.  I tried to ask google,
> but google isn't so good with the grammar....
> 
> I did ssh -X from ubx to walix, which is on the same LAN.
> DISPLAY is set to a localhost:10, which is on the remote host,
> tunneled back to the X server local host, right? :-)
> 
> well, not only that...but more is tunnelled back....
> (see below for verification of differences)
> 
> I ran mozilla on walix.
> It is clear that what comes up is mozilla
> running on ubx - i.e., Home page says
> Welcome to Ubuntu 7.10
> (walix has RedHat 8 :-)
> ...and it has featuers installed that I am sure
> are not present on walix' version of Mozilla.
> 
> Any clues? - A, why?  B, how to get google to explain it?

Can't answer B 'cause I've never chased this on google. I can tell you
what works for me re A: Don't run mozilla on ubx if you want to run
mozilla on walix.

I have occasion to run firefox (same deal, I presume) on a remote
machine, but I always have firefox open on my local box, so what I do
is start a second window manager instance (I use evilwm for this 'cause
it's very lightweight), ssh -X to my remote box, firefox &, and Bob's
your uncle!

If you figure out how to do what you're trying to do (both a local and a
remote instance of mozilla running under the same wm, please post back
to the list. Enquiring minds and all that.

Cheers,
 Pann
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