greg wm wrote: > >> the accordant annoyance with this arrangement is that neither a >> thunderbird copy operation, nor an X selection on a thunderbird window, >> are available within VNC for pasting. > even if this problem gets a solution, i doubt it will include the > capability to click a link in thunderbird and thereby bring up a page in > the firefox running within vnc. when you run "firefox http://domain.com", how does it communicate with the firefox instance already running? If its using sockets, perhaps you can use ssh and port forwarding to tunnel things through to the system that firefox is running on. -- Kathryn http://womensfooty.com