Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If one is setting up a server, one may only want to run an X server > (XFree86, for example) on that machine, and not an X client. Other > machines on the network would be running X clients and connecting with the > server's X server. One doesn't need stuff like window managers running on > the server.
That sounds backwards and confusing. An X server talks to the keyboard and display on the machine it's running on; an X client runs on some machine and has its display on some X server not necessarily on the same machine. xterm is an X client, for example. So a server (sitting in a rack) probably wouldn't have an X server, but it might have client programs installed that people could log in and run remotely. A window manager happens to be a special case of an X client, and it's possible to run it remotely, but it's rarely what you actually want. :-) Desktop environments like GNOME and KDE in my experience tend to be happiest if they're running on the same machine that the X server is on. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
