Sunday, June 30, 2024

Re: Strange behaviour of X11 and firefox

On Jun 29 16:16:07, hruodr@gmail.com wrote:
> Long ago I wanted to run firefox on OpenBSD on an OpenBSD xterm
> displayed on an X server
> running on FreeBSD. I expected, of course, a firefox running on
> OpenBSD displayed on my
> FreeBSD X server. What else could I have expected? To my surprise, it
> run the firefox installed
> on FreeBSD.

You forgot to include the actual command you executed.

> I found it annoying, it is not what I wanted, not what I expected, at
> least not without warning and
> asking me before. I would have wanted that, I would have issued the
> command on my local machine.
>
> The whole time I asked me, how firefox did that, why X11 allowed it.
> Now, I think here is the answer:

"Now" being 13 years, 10 months ago.

> https://askubuntu.com/questions/3515/how-do-i-launch-a-remote-firefox-window-via-ssh
>
> Is there a way to disable that behaviour as default? Is this "feature"
> not a misuse of the
> X shared memory extension?

Learn about X servers and X clients.

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