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Date:      Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:17:22 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com>
To:        John Oxley <john@yoafrica.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Remote X client
Message-ID:  <20050608081656.B23064@mail.goinet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050608130247.GA2665@yoafrica.com>
References:  <42A4B246.1060103@inetis.com> <20050607191506.F64334@mail.goinet.com> <20050608130247.GA2665@yoafrica.com>

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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....



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