Re: Lots more questions...
Re: Lots more questions...
- Subject: Re: Lots more questions...
- From: Chris Devers <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:17:55 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Joseph R. Kiniry wrote:
> --On Friday, January 24, 2003 11:20:06 AM -0500 Chris Devers
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > You can, but the X11 terminology for 'client' and 'server' is in my
> > opinion a little backwards (it's internally consistent & makes sense if
> > you think about it, but it's the opposite of how the terms are usually
> > used elsewhere).
>
> How is it backwards?
I wasn't really looking to pick nits over this, but suffice to say that in
most contexts (http, mail, ftp, etc) the machine you are act acts as a
client and the remote computer serves you content. As you say, you run a
program on your computer and remote computers interact with that program,
but much the same can be said of web browsers, and no one calls them web
servers -- it's the opposite, in fact. Same for mail software & so on.
So while the conventional X11 usage of the terms is internally consistent
and arguably even semantically correct (I'm not quite sold but I'm not
interested in arguing the point either), X11 usage is in a practical sense
not how most other protocols appear to the end user to work.
That IMO is how the original poster ended up saying he wanted to interact
with the X-server on the remote machine -- in other contexts that would be
how things work, but not with X-windows.
:)
--
Chris Devers email@hidden
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