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#1 2009-07-01 07:38:14

johnvoisey
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Registered: 2006-11-04
Posts: 28

"firefox is already running" dialog when logged in and also vncserving

I've been using vncserver / vncviewer / tightvnc for a while now without any problems. I've never noticed this problem before but maybe that's because I've never knowingly done what I just did.

OK to show a colleage on the other end of the internet something on my desktop I opened up the firewall and told them to run tightvnc at their end while I, logged in as the user I wanted them to "be", fired up the vncserver on this arch linux box running xfce4 as the desktop environment. Seconds later they're logged in as me, looking aththe system, just as I wanted.

OK i said crank up firefox ..... they did. Then I went to do the same, and I got an error message "firefox is already running".

OK I am pretty sure I know why ... I'm logged in as "user x" and they are piggybacking off the vncserver process I fired off as that user so they are, to the system, just an extension odf me, and so when two of us run firefox it thinks there's debris from a previous crash lying around.

Is there a workround to allow two of us to run firefox at the same time ?

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