Re: X Clients out on the net? (non-debian specific question)
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On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 MallarJ@aol.com wrote:
> I'm not sure what you're going for, but I'd say this is kind of a moot point.
>
> Yes, you can run X SERVERS remotely, but the things that make the screen look
> like it does are window managers, not the X server. And the windowmanager
> runs on your machine, not the remote site.
>
No, you can most definitely not run X SERVERS remotely. The X server is
the one single piece of software that you need to run locally on your
machine in order for X CLIENTS to be able to display windows on your
screen. The window manager is just another X client, and as such, it can
be run remotely over a network just like any other X client. Performance
will suck unless you've got a fast network connection, but it's no
different from running any other X client over a network.
What the original poster was asking about was X clients that can be
publically accessed over the internet. The chess thing on x.org was
originally put up there to demonstrate an X technology known as
"Broadway." This eventually became X11R6.3 or something like that. I'm
not really sure what the story is behind it, but it allows X clients to be
run in web browsers and other such odd things. Performance sucks, though,
and the Broadway features are not often used. I don't know of any other
public deployments of it anywhere.
noah
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