--- In [email protected], "highskywhy@..."  wrote:

> 
> What is the meaning of the word "server"?
> 
> Regards
> Sophie
>

X Window is a client server application. You computer runs an X Window server 
that you connect to as a client. It has just always been that way because back 
when X Window was originally written most computers were not powerful enough to 
run the program. Computers have changed, X Window hasn't. Start a terminal and 
issue these commands:

$ netstat -a | grep X11

That will show you the ports your X server is running on among other things.

$ ps aux | grep -i x

This will show you your server and client processes.

I'm not sure what knowing any of this will do for you today. There was a time 
when it was more important information though.



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