X Window System/remote session

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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.)

There are actually two ways to run remote graphical applications:

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