Gnome applications over ssh open on the remote X session

Question

I am ssh-ing (with ForwardX11 on) from an Ubuntu laptop to a remote OpenSUSE desktop. Both are running X11.

Some applications like xterm, xclock etc. open on the calling computer's display (Ubuntu), which is the behaviour I want. But others, like eog, nautilus, etc. open on the OpenSUSE desktop's X11 display - even though the DISPLAY variable is set to the local (Ubuntu) X11 display. How can I change this behaviour?

At least in the case of nautilus, it's likely because it connects to an already-running instance of the application. See for example ssh -X to open a file manager . — steeldriver, Mar 09 '21 at 23:11

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 09 '21 at 22:50

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Just found the solution. Unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR then it works.

answered Mar 09 '21 at 22:50

David Mills

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Thanks, this is also relevant for using several tty with different X sessions on the same machine. My problem was that calling say gnome-terminal in a tty, just opened a new terminal in my older Xsession (living in another tty). – Gauthier Jul 04 '22 at 15:51

Gnome applications over ssh open on the remote X session

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