running firefox over X tunneling (was Re: export of programs via ssh)

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 05:59:00PM +0300, Todor Petkov wrote:
> My workstation is Fedora 23, with the latest updates.
> I have also several virtual machines with Fedora23 and Centos 5/6/7.
> When I log in Fedora via ssh and try to run firefox from Fedora, there
> is no activity, it just stays and no export is coming on my screen.
> When I log in this machine via Windows (putty + xming), the export is
> fine. I have no problems with the export of lets say wireshark/xclock.
> The machine is with the latest firefox/kernel

Try 'firefox --no-remote' — otherwise, it will try to communicate with
any already-running firefox on your _local_ system ("remote" being a
kind of weird term for this).

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader