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From: wolf@cbnewsh.att.com (thomas.wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Is there an X-Client for the ST?
Message-ID: <1990Aug21.013026.24398@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 21 Aug 90 01:30:26 GMT
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From article <510009@hpbbi4.BBN.HP.COM>, by stefan@hpbbi4.BBN.HP.COM (#Stefan Bachert):
> / hpbbi4:comp.sys.atari.st / koreth@panarthea.ebay.sun.com (Steven Grimm) /  1:25 am  Aug 10, 1990 /
> In article <roarment.650147785@faui09> roarment@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Roberto Armenti) writes:
> 
>> I can't help, but I think you both mean "server," not "client."  An X server
>> is the program which accepts drawing commands and puts a display up on your
>> screen.  X clients are the programs which send the drawing commands to the
>> server.
> 
> No, the vice versa is true.
> The SERVER run the program
> The CLIENT is just the DISPLAY.
> 
> Stefan

The original poster (Roberto?) is correct.  Under the X Window system,
the X Server receives requests (drawing primitives, event-notification, etc.)
from X clients.  Based on these requests, it handles the device-dependent
aspect of the X window system (drawing to the physical screen(s), accepting
inputs from mice, keyboards,etc.).  Clients, on the other hand, receive events
from the server notifying them when they should repaint their window(s),
when the user hit the keyboard, moved or clicked on the mouse, etc.

/dev/tom

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