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Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour?

From Owen Dunn <owend@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Newsgroups comp.security.ssh
Subject Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour?
Date 2012-02-08 12:12 +0000
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Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com> writes:

> Dag-Erling Smørgrav  <des@des.no> wrote:
>> No, it's actually the only sensible behavior in 99% of the cases.  If
>> you really want a new, separate instance, use -no-remote.
>
> It's reasonably sensible behaviour when the two putative Firefoxes are
> running on the same host, since that avoids the problems of two
> separate Firefoxes concurrently accessing a single state directory
> (history, bookmarks etc). But I can't see why it's obviously what you
> want in the OP's case, where the two Firefoxes are running on
> different hosts and the only thing they have in common is that they're
> opening windows on the same X display.

It's usually what I want in this situation.  When a random application
on a remote machine wants to pop up a web browser to get me to look at
a web site (perhaps I clicked a link in an email) I don't want to end
up with another firefox, I want the link to open in the one I've
already got here.  (Usually with X forwarding the last thing I want is
for a big heavy GUI application to be running over it!)

(S)

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bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201202.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-02-07 14:53 +0100
  Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2012-02-07 15:11 +0100
    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
    Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201202.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-02-08 03:14 +0100
      Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2012-02-08 12:56 +0100
        Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com> - 2012-02-08 12:01 +0000
          Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Owen Dunn <owend@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-02-08 12:12 +0000
          Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2012-02-08 13:14 +0100
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      Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour? Stuart Barkley <stuartb@4gh.net> - 2012-02-08 23:22 -0500
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