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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:00:51 -0500
From:      "Kutulu" <kutulu@kutulu.org>
To:        "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>, "setantae" <setantae@submonkey.net>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: home pc use
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From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 5:56 PM

> But the workstation and the UNIX server are usually one and the same, in
the
> configurations being discussed here.  If you are running KDE, typically it
is
> running on the console of the same machine that runs the X clients, as I
> understand it.  So everything is running on one machine ... just like a
desktop.
>
> I supposed you could split things over two machines, but is anyone really
doing
> that?  To run a GUI, you need intimate communication with the hardware.

Yes.  People do it all the time.  It's one of the primary benefits, and from
what I can tell, one of the main goals of the X Windowing system.  The X
*server* needs intimate communication with the graphical hardware.  The X
*clients*, which includes the window manager and applications, need
absolutely zero communication with the hardware.  They communicate with the
X server.

This is something that it took me, as a long-time Windows user, a good while
to grasp.  The only program you MUST run on the workstation, is the X
Server.  I, personally, run KDE on a machine that's in a different zipcode
from the workstation it displays to.  It's somewhat slow, but very much
possible and very much part of the design of X.

While it is probably more common to find a single workstation X Server/X
Client confiuration, the X system is designed to allow a single, powerful,
central server-level machine run all of the applications, window managers,
desktops, etc. and require only an X Server running on the workstations.
And all of this is seamless to the user, and to the applications.

--K


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