-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm not sure what you're going for, but I'd say this is kind of a moot point. > > Yes, you can run X SERVERS remotely, but the things that make the screen look > like it does are window managers, not the X server. And the windowmanager > runs on your machine, not the remote site. > No, you can most definitely not run X SERVERS remotely. The X server is the one single piece of software that you need to run locally on your machine in order for X CLIENTS to be able to display windows on your screen. The window manager is just another X client, and as such, it can be run remotely over a network just like any other X client. Performance will suck unless you've got a fast network connection, but it's no different from running any other X client over a network. What the original poster was asking about was X clients that can be publically accessed over the internet. The chess thing on x.org was originally put up there to demonstrate an X technology known as "Broadway." This eventually became X11R6.3 or something like that. I'm not really sure what the story is behind it, but it allows X clients to be run in web browsers and other such odd things. Performance sucks, though, and the Broadway features are not often used. I don't know of any other public deployments of it anywhere. noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNpmLTIdCcpBjGWoFAQEfngP/ahtn95YqN1dJxIHMC4CFvVzp96a0MJ+0 OEjwck/4Y6B/SncddXxJZ8ZiXF1Zfuhe9ZP/22EsziJvxmlksyUTmSkHCcoEcBuQ LwPPc6WSaz/96hP4rjqlJLJMOmV9ZElk0suBl/v78N5SlUNigmGVHVYtVeMajKDt DkKl6HIHd5g= =3lsZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
