Kathryn Hogg wrote: > 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. > well vnc is running via ssh and port forwarding, and firefox was launched inside there, but it's compelling to think that just specifying another port to be forwarded could open a channel to firefox. do you see clear how that would actually work?