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Only the server, actually serves the graphics to the user. Within the context of the X Window System, the server is the body of code responsible for delivering
by ddingus 6y ago
Only the server, actually serves the graphics to the user.
Within the context of the X Window System, the server is the body of code responsible for delivering the display to the user viewing it.
- bitwize 6y ago> Only the server, actually serves the graphics to the user. The server actually serves the user to the remote client. It's like "you are not the customer, you are the product". The remote program needs to communicate graphically with you, and connects to the X server to do this; therefore, you are not the requester of a resource, you are the resource being served. :)
- DonHopkins 6y agoGreat analogy. Think of it like Amazon Mechanical Turk.
- ddingus 6y agoI like it. Clever, and current context relevant. Cheers.
- mcguire 6y agoThink of it in terms of a print server. It's a long-running process that other processes connect to, in order to request a service. It handles the "impedance mismatch" between the clients and the hardware it controls---in the case of a print server, it demultiplexes requests and translates them into something the printer can deal with; in the case of X, it displays the information as requested by the client and provides notifications of events as requested by the client.