On 08/11/12 14:19, Tim Allen wrote:
I've noticed for some time something which baffles me with X forwarding over ssh and using Firefox (Iceweasel in Debian). I can open a remote Iceweasel session, served up locally, in the normal way: localmachine$ ssh -X remotemachine iceweasel However, if I already have a local iceweasel session running, the above command just opens another local iceweasel session. What am I missing here? Debian Squeeze on both machines. This is specific only to Iceweasel (as far as I know). Nothing immediate leaping out at me with -v or -vv.
Curious isn't it? Thunderbird is the same, and Firefox too IIRC. It must detect the other session via the X server somehow.
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