Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 04:47:18 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: "Michael P. Deslippe" <tensbum@ix.netcom.com> Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: X-Server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970131044129.18503A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970131071239.00d9e6ec@popd.ix.netcom.com>
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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. > ---Mike > > > > Ben The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.
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