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==About==
 
==About==
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Unlike many other more popular windowing systems, the [[X Window System]], carefully separates the ''client'' (i.e. the part which the user sees and interacts with) from the ''server'' (i.e. the part which does all the work behind the scenes). This means that the client does not actually have to be running on the same machine as the server. It is possible to set up a window on one machine which is actually a session running on another machine – similar to [[VNC]], but designed into the system rather than being a kluge on top of it. (However, see [[#Bugs]].)
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The [[X Window System]]'s client-server architecture makes it possible to run graphical applications remotely – i.e. the user is interacting with the application on one machine, but the actual execution is taking place on another.
  
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There are actually ''two'' ways to run remote graphical applications:
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There are actually ''two'' ways to run remote graphical applications on X Windows:
 
* [[/application]]: run a single application
 
* [[/application]]: run a single application
 
* [[/desktop]]: run a complete desktop environment
 
* [[/desktop]]: run a complete desktop environment

Latest revision as of 23:11, 9 October 2015

About

The X Window System's client-server architecture makes it possible to run graphical applications remotely – i.e. the user is interacting with the application on one machine, but the actual execution is taking place on another.

There are actually two ways to run remote graphical applications on X Windows:

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