Re: Woody: TaskSel - XWindows; startx fails
Paul Morgan <paulswm@earthlink.net> 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.
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