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Is there a way to do this with one instance running locally and the other running on a remote display?

kulrak@bifrost:~> env |grep DISPLAY

DISPLAY=:0.0

kulrak@bifrost:~> firefox -remote 'openURL(http://www.google.com, new-window)' --display 10.0.0.69:0.0

This opens it on the local display, ignoring the command line switch.

kulrak@bifrost:~> export DISPLAY=10.0.0.69:0.0

kulrak@bifrost:~> firefox -remote 'openURL(http://www.google.com, new-window)'

Error: No running window found

kulrak@bifrost:~> firefox -a firefox -remote "OpenURL('http://www.google.com/',new-window)"

Error: No running window found

Is there any way around this?