> i looked up xearth, from the readme, its a program that displays a redered
> veiw of the earth or something lke that, not a mac xserver.
> 
> -xiamin
OK, glossary time:

xserver:	a program which is capable of displaying programs, either
		running the local machine or remotely.

xclient:	one of those programs which display themselves on the server

MacX:		a mac program which allows xclients, running off a unix host
		remotely, to display on the mac.

eXceed:		same thing.

xearth:		1) an xclient for displaying earth in background
		2) a macintosh application (has nothing to do w/ X at all)
		   port of the same type of thing.

Hence the confusion.  There is no real way to run xclients on your mac 
under MacOS, since it wouldn't make any sense.  What you meant was 
xserver.  The response about xearth meant that was a MacOS *port* of a 
unix xclient.

Hope this clears things up,
David Bushong


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