X only need to be running to display the apps. So if you are displaying the apps on a remote system, X needs to be running there.
X is a little backwards. What is considered the client in most apps is really the server in X. What is the server is really the client. So your remote machine in the typical sense is the client. Since X is backwards it is the one that needs to be running the X server software. The central machine (the one you run xterm from) typically is thought of as a server. Again, since X is backwards it just needs the client software, like xterm or any other X app. Telnet runs from the remote side xterm runs from the central side. Both do the same thing. Dunno if that makes sense. -e On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, John Hunter wrote: > > What exactly needs to be on the server end of a host to run X apps > remotely? I gather that X does not, since I just launched an xterm > from a server in runmode 3 without X running. What needs to be > installed, xfree86-server? > > Thanks, > JDH > > _______________________________________________ > Bits mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits > _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
