Re: [TCLUG:12935] Remote X (client/server rant)

[Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>]

> My view of the terms is that the client initiates action and the server
> responds.  When I'm on thisbox and execute 'ssh otherbox command', command
> may be running on otherbox and open a connection to thisbox so it can display
> itself, but it's doing so in response to a request that came from thisbox.

A request that came through ssh, not* X. We're talking about X here,
you're going to have to think narrow*.

> IMO, that means that thisbox is the client and otherbox is the server,
> despite X's claim that it's the other way around.

X serves the mouse, screen, and keyboard to the applications. Think
about it, it makes sense...