From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 04:47:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA21699 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 04:47:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA21692 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 04:47:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA18515; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 04:47:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 04:47:18 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: "Michael P. Deslippe" cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: X-Server In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970131071239.00d9e6ec@popd.ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.