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running cygwin on windows I can connect and execute X applications with no further problems
just accessing the remote linux box as ssh -Y -l user machine.
If I do the same against a mac box and try to open ie. firefox as: open -a firefox
returns the following:
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed for the application /Applications/Firefox.app with error -10810.
Any hints?
I’ve alternatively used a vnc server in the mac computer, but it’s extremely slow.
Thanks,
/Applications/Firefox.app is not an X app it uses Apple’s own GUI routines to write to the screen.
To work via cygwin you would need to compile up an X11 version of Firefox – one easy way is look at macports for X11 applications.
However I suspect you want to use Apple applications – all those in /Applications and then VNC is about the only way,