> At 02:08 PM 6/8/98 +0200, you wrote:
> >>I am running Linux myself, with my wife's Win95 machine connected to it on
> >a
> >>home LAN. I need a free X CLIENT (NOT server) that I can run on her Win95
> >PC
> >>and rlogin to my Linux box, so she can run programs on it. Actually, what
> >I'd
> >>really like is for to be able to click an icon an directly start an X
> >program
> >>on my Linux PC.
> >
> >What tou're looking for is a X SERVER not a client.
>
> Not necessarily. It would depend on where you wanted the X load placed.
> For example, at work I have a dog-slow 16Mb win95 based laptop, and
> connect to an Enterprise 3000 SUN box. In that environment, I use an
> x-client on the PC, and use the x-server on the Enterprise box. On the
> other hand, at home I have a 333 P-II running NT, and connect to a
> P-100 Linux box, and in that environment, I use an x-server on the PC,
> placing less load on the Linux box.
Sorry to be picky, but Steve has it backwards. The X-server serves up X to
your display. You run the server on the box that physically connects to your
display device.
The X clients are the programs that you run on some box, which could be the
box running the server or a remote box. These clients then send their output
to the box running the X-server, and of course get the pointing device and
keyboard device inputs from the box running the X-server as well.
I know it seems backwards, but that is how it goes. Typically in a Unix
environment you think of the server as the one that is running the
application, but when you think of X you have to think of it the other way
around.
Type "man X" and read the first paragraph under "DESCRIPTION" if you don't
believe me.
Curt, WE7U.
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Arlington, WA, USA
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