Hi,
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> However, if I have firefox running locally on the laptop, an
> invocation of firefox on the work machine will not run it remotely,
> but will cause the laptop firefox to fetch the relevant page. Very
> clever[1]. But how does it do it? In particular, *what* knows that
> I have firefox running on the X-server? Is it ssh? sshd? X?
> Firefox? The FSM?
I came across this some time ago and was most puzzled. I recall that
running
firefox --no-xshm
disabled this behaviour temporarily.
Gavin
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