multiple local X logins by same user
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 02:26:34 UTC 2008
Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Matthew Woehlke
> <mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>
>> (Incidentally, Firefox drives me nuts not letting me run it on my local
>> login and via 'ssh -X' from a remote machine. Some apps are even worse
>> behaved than not coping with two full local X sessions as to go so far as to
>> not permit multiple instances to be run /at all/.)
>
> Basically every nontrivial app doesn't support it, because it's just
> too crazy. One could spend an entire lifespan trying to figure out
> "Ok, what if I do *this*?". If you want to access your Firefox
> instance remotely, use vino or one of the other systems that lets you
> access your existing session. It works, and we can collectively move
> on to more important problems.
What is more important than predicable behavior? Something very
different happens when you run firefox for the first time in a remote
window compared to when it is already running.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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