Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour?

Newsgroups	comp.security.ssh
Subject	Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour?
From	Chris Dodd <cdodd@acm.org>
References	<a3e64d967fb73a7434e906e52dc7fb85@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> <86wr7yivih.fsf@ds4.des.no>
Message-ID	<Xns9FF284E2FB507cdoddacmorg@194.177.98.144> (permalink)
Date	2012-02-07 22:04 +0100
Organization	X-Privat.Org NNTP Server - http://www.x-privat.org

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=?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> wrote in 
news:86wr7yivih.fsf@ds4.des.no:

> Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201202.rodent.frell.theremailer.net>
> writes:
>> Guys I am having a difficult time believing my eyes on this one. I've
>> got X11 forwarded over SSH from a remote system running firefox. When
>> I start firefox on my local system even specifying the path to my
>> executable in a terminal window /usr/bin/firefox firefox starts from
>> the remote system!
> 
> This is intended behavior.  When you start Firefox, it queries the X
> server for existing instances, and if it finds one, instead of starting
> a new instance, it sends the existing one a signal telling it to open a
> new window.
> 
> DES

Note that you can disable this behavior by using the -no-remote option
to firefox.  This will cause it to always open a new instance even firefox
is already running on some other window.

    	    	    	    	-chris

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    Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Chris Dodd <cdodd@acm.org> - 2012-02-07 22:04 +0100
      Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201202.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-02-08 17:47 +0100
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