Re: remote display does not start a NEW client

George wrote:

>I routinely ssh to another system on my local network and run
>mozilla/firefox from that remote system to display to the desktop I am
>currently sitting in front of. If the desktop I am currently sitting in
>front of already has another browser window of the same browser running
>(i.e. mozilla - local and mozilla - remote  or  firefox - local and
>firefox - remote) instead of starting a new master browser window from
>that remote system, I get another child window from the local system. If
>instead I have non-matching browsers running locally and remotely (firefox
>- local and mozilla - remote for instance) I do get a new master browser
>window from that remote system.
>
>The later is the behavior I am looking for. If I am running a browser
>window remotely it is because I want to access some bookmark or history
>that is only in the profile of the remote user or I want to open a file
>from that remote filesystem that is not directly web available from my
>local system.
>
>Is there some way I can use some sort of command line switch or something
>to prevent this child local window thing from happening so when I do this
>I always get a paprent master browser window from the remote system?
>__
>sad
>  
>

This is the result of the way Mozilla xremote uses the current Xwindows 
display to
find and locate other Mozilla instances.  There are some command line 
switches
available to mozilla-xremote-client that you can use to select which 
Mozilla instance
you want to send your xremote commands to, but I don't think the set of 
options is
rich enough to do what you want.  They're also not fully implemented on 
Firefox :-(

For example, if you run mozilla-xremote-client --help, you'll get output 
like this:

Usage: mozilla-xremote-client [-a firefox|thunderbird|mozilla|any]
                              [-u <username>]
                              [-p <profile>] COMMAND

The -a argument can be used to select the name of the application you 
want to send
the command to.  You can also use -u and -p to select a Mozilla running 
under a
particular user account and Mozilla profile, respectively.  This may or 
may not be
sufficient for your needs.  Firefox ignores the -p argument (see
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251244).

-Darin