From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 07:52:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA28094 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:52:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from atlantis.nconnect.net (root@atlantis.nconnect.net [206.54.227.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA28084 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:52:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from arabian.sylvester.com (beagle.execpc.com [169.207.6.122]) by atlantis.nconnect.net (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA11214; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 09:44:20 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <32F2155B.41C67EA6@nconned.net> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 09:52:59 -0600 From: Randy DuCharme X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Snob Art Genre CC: "Michael P. Deslippe" , questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: X-Server References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Snob Art Genre wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Michael P. Deslippe wrote: > > > I haven't installed XFree on my machine, but I have a question. I've > > noticed many, many applications that require it. If I load it on the > > machine, will users telneting in be able to use X-based apps and will they > > be able to see x-based screens or is that an application just for the local > > machine? or is tha data just exported to X-based clients? > > It's an odd model of interaction. For your telnetting users to use X, > they must locally run an X server -- a display driver, basically. The > display is consumed by X clients: the applications that require X, which > can be run locally (on their machines) or remotely (on yours). > > There are X servers for many platforms, from MacOS to DOS to VMS to OS/2 > to most unixes. Only unix and VMS run X clients, as far as I know. > > Is this making sense to you? It took me a while to grok the > backwards-seeming model. FWIW I remember reading/hearing about a commercial product (Chamelion, I think ) that's supposed to emulate an X-terminal on a WinDOZE machine. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Randall D DuCharme email: randyd@nconnect.net Systems Engineer Computer Specialists 414-253-9998 253-9919 (fax) -----------------------------------------------------------------------