26 Jun
2015
26 Jun
'15
2:04 p.m.
On 06/25/15 18:02, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:55:41 -0400 m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
mark "and why is it called xorg-x11-server, when in Xterminology, it's the client?"*
- Which I always thought was bass-ackward, but...
You should think of it this way: the program that wants something drawn on the screen is a client; the program that does the drawing is the server. The client asks the server to draw stuff on the screen, and server is, well... servicing those requests, from various clients.
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You misunderstand me: I understand the terminology, and why they chose it. I simply disagree with their choice, and have always found it confusing, esp. to anyone coming into it since, um, the mid/late 80's, when *everything* else in the world used the terminology the other way, from d/b to three-tiered architecture.
mark