From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 19 11:34:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90C4537B405 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:34:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mvaexch00.acuson.com ([157.226.230.212]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA3FF3; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:34:24 -0800 Received: by mvaexch00.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <172652TD>; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:29:06 -0800 Received: from there (dhcp-46-150.acuson.com [157.226.46.150]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id CJVDH07L; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:24:22 -0800 From: Johnson David To: Nora Schram , Newbies FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Organization: Acuson Subject: Re: How to X? Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:34:18 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <002101c1b876$a08afec0$0300a8c0@cb03> In-Reply-To: <002101c1b876$a08afec0$0300a8c0@cb03> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020219193427.90C4537B405@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday 18 February 2002 03:53 am, Nora Schram wrote: > 1. No X on the server, just files, databases > X on another FreeBSD box, possibly dual-boot with a Windows version > Do I have to put my X-applications on every client or can I put them > on the server too? X uses the terms "server" and "client" differently than most people are used to, and it can get confusing. The X server runs on the machine that has the display. The X client is the software that you are running. So, every machine that you wish to view X applications on needs to have an X server. The X applications themselves can reside on any computer. You don't even need more than just the X server on your "client" machines. Here's how X is setup at my work: Bull, Balderdash: My desktop workstations. Bull is a Solaris machine with Openwindows (a X11R5 variant) and Balderdash has FreeBSD with XFree86. To use the Framemaker application from Balderdash, I have to remotely log into to Bull (since framemaker is a Solaris application). Then I run Framemaker on Bull, and I get to use Framemaker for Solaris on FreeBSD. The actual application is running on Bull, but everything is being displayed on Balderdash. Of course, I have to let Bull know what X display to use. In this situation, Bull is a server, but it is running the X client. Balderdash is a client, but it is running the X server. Hope this helps, David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message