Re: Woody: TaskSel - XWindows; startx fails
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 12:30:26 -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> 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.
My apologies, I wrote it ass backwards without thinking. It's not my area
of expertise and I screwed it up. I withdraw my post (wish I could delete
it) and tanks for the much more rational explanation which had me slapping
my head when I read it.
I'm now going to put my head up a horse's ass.
--
....................paul
It's working as coded.
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