<html><head></head><body><div>A student was having issues with saving a file from firefox. It would download and was told to save to the desktop. File didn't appear on the desktop. Check the downloads on firefox and it could pull it up. Ah HA! The firefox was the remote firefox he launched over a remote ssh -X session.</div><div><br></div><div>Oops. Not exactly. He had a firefox launched over a remote X session and used the LOCAL launcher to load a LOCAL firefox. It didn't. It loaded another REMOTE firefox.</div><div><br></div><div>WTF?!?!?!?!?</div><div><br></div><div>Closed all firefox. launched a local firefox. Verified it's a local (title bar has no remote machine and file saved where expected). Now back to running remote ssh -X terminal window to launch a remote firefox. Nope. Another LOCAL firefox launched instead.</div><div><br></div><div>WTF!?!?!?!?!</div><div><br></div><div>Hmm. Suspect gnome is being stupid. Remote system is a centos 6 workstation. Local is a centos 7 workstation.</div><div><br></div><div>Did a ssh -X to a different remote that actually had xterm. Launched xterm and then launched firefox from xterm. Did a local launch of firefox and got a local firefox. Remote system is NOT running gdm as it's not a workstation.</div><div><br></div><div>Went back to other remote centos 6 system but it had no xterm. Loaded a gnome-terminal and launched a remote firefox. Local firefox launch loaded another remote one instead. </div><div><br></div><div>Pretty certain this is a gnome problem.</div><div><br></div><div>Ideas and comments welcome. Not changing to KDE, though. Will rewrite this and throw it at gnome, centos and rhel bugzillas. </div><div><br></div><div>Hmm. did not test other applications.</div><div><span><pre>--
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