[GRLUG] X forwading question
L. V. Lammert
lvl at omnitec.net
Thu Aug 2 12:17:01 EDT 2012
At 09:56 PM 8/1/2012, 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].
I did have another instance running on the local machine, .. thanks!
Lee
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