Subject: Re: X-Windows Client
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
From: Gabriel B. Schine <gabe@tiger.acsu.k12.vt.us>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/08/1998 15:02:11
in return to that... i think you want to get MacX, which allows you to set
the display to that mac computer.
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Ken Nakata wrote:
> Mark de Jong wrote:
> >
> > Is there an X-Windows client that I can run under MacOS to communicate with
> > an X server running on NetBSD?
>
> I get a feeling that you want the opposite thing of what you are
> asking. That is, you want to use the MacOS box as the display for X
> clients running on NetBSD, don't you? "X server" refers the program
> that controls the displays, the keyboards and the pointing devices,
> whereas "clients" refers to the programs that ask the server to do the
> user interface related tasks while doing all the other work by itself.
>
> If you do really mean what you are literally saying, you will run the
> client on MacOS and the client's window will open up on the NetBSD box
> running X server, which IMO doesn't make much sense.
>
> BTW, there is no "X-windows". It's either X Window System, simply X, or
> with version and release numbers, X11 or X11R6.
>
> Ken
>
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