From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 13:17:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED5B16A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:17:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (mail.goinet.com [208.207.72.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA73943D58 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:17:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (localhost.goinet.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j58DHMrc098374; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:17:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from localhost (tshadwick@localhost) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id j58DHMr6098369; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:17:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.goinet.com: tshadwick owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:17:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick To: John Oxley In-Reply-To: <20050608130247.GA2665@yoafrica.com> Message-ID: <20050608081656.B23064@mail.goinet.com> References: <42A4B246.1060103@inetis.com> <20050607191506.F64334@mail.goinet.com> <20050608130247.GA2665@yoafrica.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on mail.goinet.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote X client X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 13:17:34 -0000 On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, John Oxley wrote: >> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Karel Miklav wrote: >> >>> I ssh on remote server, set DISPLAY, then run Thunderbird, Links etc. >>> remotely and everything looks and works great. Now I try Firefox and >>> WTF! it read configuration from the local machine! Links and settings >>> are all local and it doesn't resolve as I didn't set up route on local >>> machine yet. So it's local, but how can that happen - it was run over >>> ssh on remote machine?! > > try running > firefox --no-xshm Just out of curiousity, why would that matter? I've run firefox remotely server times without needing an extra flag....