Hi John,
> Tim Allen wrote:
> > I can open a remote Iceweasel session, served up locally, in the
> > normal way:
> >
> > localmachine$ ssh -X remotemachine iceweasel
> >
> > However, if I already have a local iceweasel session running, the
> > above command just opens another local iceweasel session. What am I
> > missing here?
>
> Curious isn't it? Thunderbird is the same, and Firefox too IIRC. It
> must detect the other session via the X server somehow.
Yes, it looks through the X window hierarchy for its `Mozilla'
properties and finds the window that best matches, e.g. Firefox, same
user, same profile.
$ xlsatoms | gi mozilla
440 _MOZILLA_VERSION
441 _MOZILLA_LOCK
442 _MOZILLA_COMMAND
443 _MOZILLA_RESPONSE
444 _MOZILLA_USER
445 _MOZILLA_PROFILE
446 _MOZILLA_PROGRAM
447 _MOZILLA_COMMANDLINE
$
$ xprop -id 0x1c000ff | g _MOZILLA
_MOZILLA_PROFILE(STRING) = "default"
_MOZILLA_PROGRAM(STRING) = "firefox"
_MOZILLA_USER(STRING) = "ralph"
_MOZILLA_VERSION(STRING) = "5.1"
$
To tell the Firefox you've started not to do that use -no-remote AIUI.
However, don't let it try and use the same profile as another running
Firefox and profiles aren't designed to cope. Instead, give it another
profile name with -P. -ProfileManager lets you create a new one.
Cheers, Ralph.
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