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Client/server confusion?

Client/server confusion?

Posted Feb 14, 2012 9:55 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: Client/server confusion? by neilbrown
Parent article: Wayland - Beyond X (The H)

Curious - why run xterm on the remote machine and send X11 protocol over the network? Wouldn't it make more sense to run a local xterm with an ssh session inside that?

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Client/server confusion?

Posted Feb 14, 2012 21:32 UTC (Tue) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]

> Curious - why run xterm on the remote machine and send X11 protocol over the network?

Hmm.. I cannot give a good answer, though I know I did this all the time back when I was a sys-admin.

I guess it was a poor example. How about "rhythmbox is a client that runs on the box in the corner which is plugged into the nice speakers". Wouldn't want to run that locally on my notebook - speakers are too tinny.


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