Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:41:37 +0000 From: setantae <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <20011120224137.GA82211@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <00c101c17204$4070bb50$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <3BF9B12B.3D521A4D@nycap.rr.com> <0111191831240Q.60958@chip.wiegand.org> <20011119220243.A268@prayforwind.com> <009a01c171a9$4eedbee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120061026.A2767@prayforwind.com> <014601c171d2$22ada240$a50410ac@olmct.net> <008a01c171fa$7110be90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120200746.GA80963@rhadamanth> <00c101c17204$4070bb50$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:45:06PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Ceri writes:
If you stopped snipping context so you could disregard my points then it
might help your credibility. It certainly would with me.
> > The X server runs on the workstation.
>
> If you are running the X server on your UNIX machine, the server and the
> workstation are one and the same. No other computer is involved.
That's not the situation you described though, is it?
You said :
`` I would not run any X server on a large system with many
users connected; let the users gobble resources on their own workstations,
not on the central system.''
If, however, you are running the X server on the same machine, then the
server and workstation are one and the same.
However, I think you are failing to realise that the X server and the
workstation are always one and the same. Each user runs their own X server.
I'll say it again, in case you still don't get it :
The X server runs on the workstation.
> Then again, I'm not sure where you'd run X servers in a multiuser
> environment--where else is there besides the console?
>
> > The X server runs on the workstation.
As in, each user runs their own X server on their own workstation, the
machine that all the users they are logged into doesn't run an X server at
all, it runs X clients.
> If all these people running X Servers like KDE are not running them on the UNIX
> machine itself from the console, where _are_ they running them, exactly?
KDE isn't an X server, it's a window manager, and in the situation you
describe above, it's the X client.
Each user is running their own X server on their own workstation.
Ceri
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