ssh -X not working for all applications

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networkinss
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ssh -X not working for all applications

Post by networkinss »

Hello,
I am using a Linuxmint computer via remote connection.
Using

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ssh -X user@remotemachine
is very comfortable to start GUI applications on the remote machine seeing and using them on the local.
However, it works fine with e.g. Firefox and Thunderbird, but not for Caja.
Caja opens the GUI on the remote machine and not on the local.

Anyone an idea to have also Caja GUI from the remote machine locally ?
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altair4
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Re: ssh -X not working for all applications

Post by altair4 »

It's either a 3 year old or 4 year old bug depending on where it was reported:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1815318
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate/+bug/1774288

Curiously, the only way you can invoke caja on the client machine is to do so with root privileges and only this way:

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sudo -E caja
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