[brandz-discuss] firefox process

[Scott L. Burson]

I think, if you really don't want this behavior, you could prevent it  
by giving yourself a different home directory in the lx zone than you  
have in the global zone.  Of course, that may be inconvenient.

-- Scott

On Nov 2, 2006, at 15:01, William Kucharski wrote:

> Sean Liu wrote:
>> I noticed it's pretty tricky.
>> I ssh -X into a lx zone from global zone. and try to start firefox.
>> If firefox is already running in the global zone, then the process  
>> in lx zone will quitely quit, a firefox window will pop up but  
>> it's just another window of the solaris firefox. The would be no  
>> firefox process running in the lx zone at all.
>> If firefox is not already running, then a new linux firefox will  
>> start.
>> Is it by design or mistake?
>
> This is the way Firefox works, at least on all UNIX-based platforms.
>
> The firefox startup script will check if another copy of firefox is  
> displaying to the same X display.  If it is, that copy of firefox  
> will be told to open a new window and the firefox command will exit.
>
> If you think about it, it's actually pretty nifty of them.
>
>     William Kucharski
>     william.kucharski at sun.com
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