From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 14:44:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2F5A37B416 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:44:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc3-card3-0-cust122.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.254.251.122] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 166Jcw-0005Ju-00; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:44:26 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 166JaD-000LPz-00; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:41:37 +0000 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:41:37 +0000 From: setantae To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <20011120224137.GA82211@rhadamanth> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00c101c17204$4070bb50$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message