Description of problem: When I ssh into a remote machine - and run mozilla on it - 'it ues 'mozilla-xremote-client' instead of running a 'mozilla-bin' process on the remote machine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.7.3-17 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run mozilla on localhost (say FC3) 2. ssh -Y remote-machine (say rawhide) 3. run 'mozilla' on remote machine. Actual results: 'mozilla' on remote machine - uses ozilla-xremote-client - and somehow causes mozilla on localhost to spwan a new window Expected results: a new mozilla-bin process on the remote-machine Additional info: If I run mozilla on a remote machine - I expect a 'mozilla-bin' process to run on it (otherwise I could have easily opened the mozilla window on the localhost - and not bothered to ssh into the remote box to invoke mozilla)
Yeah, known problem and no good way to fix it. You can't tell if a particular X connection is "remote" or not. If you want to fake it out, run 'LOGNAME=foo firefox' on the remote machine and it should start up a new instance.
My workarround is: ssh -Y remote-machine 'mozilla -foobar'