Re: X server
- From: Rich Gibbs <richg74@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:08:52 -0500
brice rebsamen said the following, on 11/14/06 20:12:
Hi
Is it possible to use one computer as a main station, i.e. with applications and data on it, an another one that would access all these resources via the network?
What I want to do is to use my computer in the living room as the main one, to listen to music, watch movies and all, but I want to have another one in another room to work on it. I have a spare computer, but it's a PII so I am afraid it would be way to slow to run efficiently anything.
So I was thinking I could use the main computer as a X server, and the other one as a X client. Isn't it the purpose of X?
Is that possible, or not at all?
Yes. X was designed with networking in mind. As an example, even back in the early 1990s, when I was working in London, we would sometimes demo a new application "remotely" for our Paris or New York offices, using X over the network (plus a telephone connection so we could talk, of course ;-). That worked OK even over a fairly slow trans-Atlantic link, and on a local net it works just fine.
One thing that may be slightly confusing at first is the terminology. The X _server_ runs on the machine that is providing the display, keyboard, and mouse that the user employs. It provides a virtualized GUI device to one or more X _client_ applications. So in your proposed setup, the main machine in the living room would be running X clients, with the X server running on the satellite machine.
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Rich Gibbs
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