Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!persoft!gorgon!dag From: dag@gorgon.uucp (Daniel A. Glasser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Is there an X-Client for the ST? Message-ID: <1990Aug23.121331.1582@gorgon.uucp> Date: 23 Aug 90 12:13:31 GMT References: <510009@hpbbi4.BBN.HP.COM> Organization: Perseus Reductions (Medusa Division) Lines: 35 In article <510009@hpbbi4.BBN.HP.COM> stefan@hpbbi4.BBN.HP.COM (#Stefan Bachert) writes: >/ hpbbi4:comp.sys.atari.st / koreth@panarthea.ebay.sun.com (Steven Grimm) / 1:25 am Aug 10, 1990 / >In article 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 No, Steven Grimm is correct. In the terminology used by the X window system, a "Server" provides a service to "Client" applications. The display is controlled by a "Server" process. The "Client" is an application which may run on the same machine or over a network. This may sound backward to those not initiated, but it actually makes a lot of sense. Consider that a single X windows server can have multiple clients accessing it at once. This is, in fact, the usual case, since the window manager is a client application as is whatever application that may be in direct use by the user. It is true that a single client application may use connect to several servers, but this is not very common. Enough said. End of thread. Daniel A. Glasser -- Daniel A. Glasser One of those things that goes dag%gorgon@persoft.com "BUMP! (ouch!)" in the night.