You do not want to export DISPLAY, either the ssh -Y set it right or it did not. In either case :0 is usually the monitor directly connected to the device so that will probably never be right for a ssh connection. On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:12 AM S.Bob <sbob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > All; > > > I seem to remember way back in the day we used to ssh to a server, set > our local display on that connection and then run a web browser FROM the > ssh target but display the web browser on the source machine. > > > I think we used to do this: > > ssh -Y target_machine > > export DISPLAY=:0 > > $ firefox & > > > > I have a mac, I can ssh to it, I want to run a web browser FROM the mac > but displayed on my Fedora 31 laptop. > > > I tried this: > > > ssh -Y mac_ip > > export DISPLAY=:0 > > $ /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox > > But no joy > > > Thoughts? Is this possible? > > > Thanks in advance > > > > -- > `When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*".' (By Linus Torvalds) > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
