On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 12:12 PM S.Bob <s...@quadratum-braccas.com> 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
>
I think the problem is OSX does not use X11 as its windowing
system so the fedora box cannot draw it. With that said, good old vnc
will work just find.
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