Leaving firefox running remotely through a ssh connection

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 4 13:59:39 UTC 2010


On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:34 AM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I am remotely running firefox through a ssh connection with the
>>>> following command:
>>>>
>>>> firefox -no-remote&
>>>>
>>>> and everything works fine. However, I would like to leave firefox
>>>> running remotely after quitting the ssh connection. Is that possible?
>>> you can do this:
>>>
>>> nohup firefox -no-remote&
>>>
>>> And it will remain running after you log out.
>> Thanks, but I cannot logout (it gets stuck) after I run a X
>> application. Any ideas?
>>
>> Paul
> I don't understand what you are saying.
> Firefox IS an X client.
> You run nohum firefox .... &
> and you log out and it gets stuck????
>
>
>
> Is this what you are saying??

Yes, that is it. I have searched the Internet for further information,
and I have got some references to this problem:

http://fixunix.com/networking/10827-ssh-x-user-server-hangs-logout.html

Paul


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