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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
