Comment by xantronix
1 day ago
You actually hit the nail on the head; pixbuf/pixmap font rendering on the client side rather than X server side text rendering.
1 day ago
You actually hit the nail on the head; pixbuf/pixmap font rendering on the client side rather than X server side text rendering.
Note that on X, client and server are inverted.
But GP used client and server correctly, no? In the traditional model, the server renders the text it received from the client. Nowadays, the client renders it itself and pushes the whole bitmap to the server.
Pushing the whole bitmap is much slower over dialup, versus a set of commands.
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I don't get how it could be the other way around? The domain here is controlling a display. A server does stuff, a client requests it. The X naming is exactly natural. The server draws and controls hardware, the client requests it.
On traditional GUIs nomeclature (not X), client is what is running on the local hardware, server is where the actual process is running, aka thin clients.
It is also the nomenclature when talking about RDP, VNC, and many others,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_desktop_software#
I'm aware. The X server is the thing the user sits and operates. I've written quite a bit of Xlib code in my day.