On 3/31/06, Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin at ul.ie> wrote:
> I'm puzzled, and more than a little impressed.
>> I'm sitting at home, on the laptop, with (in a gnome-terminal) an
> ssh session to my work machine (via broadband). If I run an
> X-program on my work machine it displays (more or less efficiently)
> on my laptop. As it should.
>> 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?
Well on this machine at least (FC4), /usr/bin/firefox is actually a
script. The main player in this seems to be a beastie called
mozilla-xremote-client which may be network aware - this is left as an
excercise to the OP ;)
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