On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:54:27PM +0800, Deephay wrote: > Thx for your experience. > I am not very much sure what's the meaning of this sentence: > > an application that wasn't dealing properly with a remote x-term > You mean the installation of some apps / libs affects the system?
To really understand X you have to appreciate that it was designed as a network protocol that could be used to access display (and input) hardware remotely. An application opens a server using the X protocol, and is able to interact with the user sitting at that server. The net effect is that you can be working on numerous different applications spread over many different computers, and they are all accessed in an equal manner using the same screen and keyboard. You choose the computer which handles the login via the XDMCP protocol. Since then there has been a trend towards building display hardware and computer in the same box, so that the server software and application run on the same machine, making for a much faster communications path. In this situation you can some times get away with things that won't work in the more traditional configuration. For example, X servers running on your own CPU have your VM so often have few memory restrictions, whereas a hardware X terminal (usually) has no disk and is typically limitted to a few tens of meg. Or if you rely on continually transferring the same bitmaps rather than caching them, it might work with a local server communicating via shared memory, but but struggle on a 10Mb Ethernet. So for all you X application developers and packagers out there, make sure you test those applications local *and* remote if we are not to lose much of the power of X ;) > I have installed openoffice recently, not sure if that affects.. If the problem only started after that, then it would make it a prime suspect. I only use it when some uncultured heathen sends me something in a Microsoft specific format and I can't get it sent in anything more Unix friendly. It is much too big and slow for my taste, and I don't like kitchen sink software that tries to do everything in one big application - though that is not really a criticism of OO's designers. They had to follow the lead of the application they were seeking to provide an escape from. In any case I was doing so last time the problem happened, so I suspected it. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
