On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yaacov-Yoseph Weiss wrote:
>>> I built seamonkey-2.12.1 and ran it.  I was quite suprised that a 2.10.1
>>> window came up.  After some investigation, 2.12.1 came up when testing
>>> directly from the other system's monitor/keyboard and 2.12.1 also came
>>> up over ssh when I switched to a different remote user.  When running
>>> with the same username though, a new window of my currently running
>>> 2.10.1 window starts.
>>>
>>> That was surprising.
>>
>> I think I've seen that before. I'm pretty sure firefox (and its variants)
>> open a new window of the currently running process (for the
>> same user) if it exists.
>
> The question is, how does the version of seamonky on the remote machine
> know if I'm running a version of the local machine?

I misread the story. Sorry. It probably knows through the  X session. I think
calling using the -no-remote option would run the local copy.

--yaacov
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