It helps to think of the X server as the component that is making graphics,
widgets, and other display and user interface services available to the
client application which needs those services in order to get input and
display output for the user.
Client/Server has always referred to the components that consumed (client)
and supplied (server) services never the physical location of those
components.
The idea of a server being a box behind some locked door and a client being
a machine on someone's desk is what happened after some suits decided to
try and explain client/server to the more expensive suits.
Dean O.
Ken Wilson wrote:
>
> Interesting, not quite the way they taught us at college but I'll have
> to take your word for it. The only package that we used was the VNC
> package, which was two part with the server portion running on the Linux
> box. You had to telnet to the Linux box and start the VNC server. It
> gave you a unique code and started running in the background. You then
> logged off and started the VNC client on the Windows box, giving it the
> code for accessing the VNC server on the Linux box.
>
> Ken Wilson
> First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is
> irrelevant
> (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ramon Gandia
> > Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 3:25 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] Telneting to the server
> <snip>
> >
> > This is a frequent area of confusion. It seems backwards, but
> > here it is:
> >
> > the computer you watch the program on is the X-server.
> > The application runs on the the X-client.
> >
> > Example. You have two computers. ONe is Linux box and
> > runs a program. You want to watch this program on the
> > Windows95 computer screen. The Windows95 is the X-server.
> >
> > For the purposes of the program, the reverse is true, but
> > not in the case of X.
> >
> > The original posting was right. What the guy wants is
> > an X-server for his Windows 95 computer so he can look at
> > X programs running on his Linux box.
> >
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