>the terms "server" and "client" are sort of the wrong way around in
>X.
>
>the X server is where the displaying is happening. X clients connect
>to this to display stuff. so the terminal in front of the user is
>actually the X *server*.
It seems that way but it only seems the wrong way around if one has the
mistaken notion that an application client must be closer to the human.
What the X server serves up are the input/output devices of the terminal
to the application clients. To seemingly confuse things more, diskless
X-terminals are often referred to as thin clients.
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