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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:41:37 +0000
From:      setantae <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: home pc use
Message-ID:  <20011120224137.GA82211@rhadamanth>
In-Reply-To: <00c101c17204$4070bb50$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:45:06PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Ceri writes:

If you stopped snipping context so you could disregard my points then it
might help your credibility.  It certainly would with me.

> > The X server runs on the workstation.
> 
> If you are running the X server on your UNIX machine, the server and the
> workstation are one and the same.  No other computer is involved.

That's not the situation you described though, is it?
You said :
`` I would not run any X server on a large system with many
   users connected; let the users gobble resources on their own workstations,
   not on the central system.''

If, however, you are running the X server on the same machine, then the
server and workstation are one and the same.
However, I think you are failing to realise that the X server and the
workstation are always one and the same.  Each user runs their own X server.
I'll say it again, in case you still don't get it :
	The X server runs on the workstation.
     
> Then again, I'm not sure where you'd run X servers in a multiuser
> environment--where else is there besides the console?
> 
> > The X server runs on the workstation.

As in, each user runs their own X server on their own workstation, the
machine that all the users they are logged into doesn't run an X server at
all, it runs X clients.

> If all these people running X Servers like KDE are not running them on the UNIX
> machine itself from the console, where _are_ they running them, exactly?

KDE isn't an X server, it's a window manager, and in the situation you
describe above, it's the X client.

Each user is running their own X server on their own workstation.

Ceri

-- 
keep a mild groove on

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