Re: Leaving firefox running remotely through a ssh connection

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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:22 AM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> I am remotely running firefox through a ssh connection with the
>>>> following command:
>>>>
>>>> firefox -no-remote&
>>>>
>>>> and everything works fine. However, I would like to leave firefox
>>>> running remotely after quitting the ssh connection. Is that possible?
>>>
>>> you can do this:
>>>
>>> nohup firefox -no-remote &
>>>
>>> And it will remain running after you log out.
>>
>> Thanks, but I cannot logout (it gets stuck) after I run a X
>> application. Any ideas?
>>
>
> If you don't mind my asking, why do you want to keep it running? I
> can't see a possible use case since there is no way to connect to a
> running session of firefox. In fact if you try to run firefox on the
> same machine as the same user, it will complain that another session
> is running and you need to close that.
>
> If your intention is to keep a constantly running firefox session
> which you want to connect to at some point in time in the future, then
> I would suggest you run a VNC (or some other remote desktop protocol)
> and start firefox from there. So something like this should work,
>
> paul@remote-host $ vncserver :<display> -geometry <desired_resolution>
>
> Then locally start a vnc client of some kind (vncviewer, tigervnc,
> remmina, ... ) and connect to the remote machine and start firefox.
> Now every time you connect with a vnc client you will have access to
> the same firefox session.

Yes, my intention is to keep a constantly firefox session, which I
want to connect to at some point in time in the future. Thanks for
suggesting me VNC. I will try it, but meanwhile I have a question: can
the VNC session be seen by someone nearby the remote computer?

Paul
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