[GRLUG] X forwading question

[Kyle]

On 08/01/2012 10:56 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 21:42 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
>> Is there any explanation for this behavior? Any thoughts on how to get it
>> working?
> Did you already have Firefox running locally when you started the
> 'remote' Firefox?  It may have just opened a new local Firefox windows
> since it detected you already had and instance of "Firefox" in your X
> session;  this is a pretty normal, and occasionally annoying,
> application-singleton thing [apps that don't want you to run more than
> one instance so they redirect your start requests to an already running
> instance].

+1.  I've had this happen before and had to close all open client-side 
Firefox/Chromium windows since I didn't know about the command line 
switch that Joshua Hulst mentioned.

- Kyle