Tuesday, January 29, 2013

[LINUX_Newbies] Re: Problem 6: Small questions

 



--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "highskywhy@..." wrote:

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> What is the meaning of the word "server"?
>
> Regards
> Sophie
>

X Window is a client server application. You computer runs an X Window server that you connect to as a client. It has just always been that way because back when X Window was originally written most computers were not powerful enough to run the program. Computers have changed, X Window hasn't. Start a terminal and issue these commands:

$ netstat -a | grep X11

That will show you the ports your X server is running on among other things.

$ ps aux | grep -i x

This will show you your server and client processes.

I'm not sure what knowing any of this will do for you today. There was a time when it was more important information though.

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