X Server is a program that provides display and user input services to other programs. In comparison, a file server provides other programs with access to file storage devices. File servers are typically located in a remote location and you use the services of a file server from the machine that you are located at.

Yes, you have to have some form of X server (unless you're running Windows, of course). It needs an X server for image processing, and for font manipulation. However, if you wish to run in batch mode, you can run with a special, frame-buffer-less X server called Xvfb, which doesn't require a graphics card or mess with your screen: Xvfb :1 -screen 0 10x10x8 -pixdepths 1 & gimp --display :1.0 --no-interface --batch "commands" ..

Some servers have no facility for this; you may be able to adjust your monitor to correct somewhat. Later versions of XFree86 allow these server options: gamma f set gamma value (0.1 < f < 10.0) Default: 1.0 -rgamma f set gamma value for red phase -ggamma f set gamma value for green phase -bgamma f set gamma value for blue phase

Yes, you have to have some form of X server - the GIMP is an X application! It needs an X server for image processing, and for font manipulation. However, if you wish to run in batch mode, you can run with a special, frame-buffer-less X server called Xvfb, which doesn't require a graphics card or mess with your screen: Xvfb :1 -screen 0 10x10x8 -pixdepths 1 & gimp --display :1.0 --no-interface --batch "commands" ..

People who have worked in LAN-type environments are easily confused by the X notions of client and server. In such a scenario, one might have dozens of "client" machines, each running an X server which uses the network to connect to X clients (application programs) running on the "server" in the machine room. However, X's client/server terminology makes perfect sense if one thinks about what resources are in demand, and what program's job it is to service requests.

The best way to change the default color depth of the X server is to add a "DefaultColorDepth" line to the "Screen" section that corresponds to the X server you use. Here is one example: To change the color depth on a per-invocation basis with startx, send the appropriate command line argument to the X server: With xdm, the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file must be edited; there is not a way to change the color depth on a per-session basis.

This is not difficult if you understand that unless the X server is told otherwise, it attempts to be server number 0 for the local machine. To instruct the X server to use a different server number for itself, pass it the server number as an argument.

If the X server refuses to start, complaining that it cannot find the "fixed" font, then one (or more) of the following is likely true: You don't have a valid FontPath in your /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. At the very minimum, your FontPath should look something like this: FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" You will likely have several more directories listed. The "fixed" font is in the misc directory. The fonts.

Starting with Solaris 10, kdmconfig will also offer the option of running the Xorg X server. The Xorg server is configured using /etc/X11/xorg.conf but tries to do the right thing without configuration.

A list of video cards and the X servers they require can be found at http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html. If you don't find an entry for your card or chipset in that list, check the Chipset Support section below to see if it is mentioned there. Q.B5- My PC is PC98 compliant. Should I use the XF98 servers? No. The "XF98" servers and related utilities will only work with the Japanese PC98 architecture computers.

If your installation of XFree86 3.3/3.3.3 is not complete you may see the following error message when starting an X server: error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy This is a only a warning message, and is mostly harmless. If your server is failing to startup, this is not the reason. Check the other messages. The file being referred to is included in the Xlib.tgz part of the XFree86 binary distributions produced by The XFree86 Project.

You will need to direct the display so it goes across the network to your own graphical terminal. (Paid support.) Note that the X Windows programs that you wish to run must be available on the server. Most X Windows programs should already be installed if you did an uninterruptible operating system install.

Especially heard from KDE users with large monitors, many workspaces, and a different picture in the root window of each workspace.) The X Window System is a client-server window system. The memory for pixmap data resides on the server side instead of the client side. If you have 8 1600x1200 32bpp root window images that's 61 Megabytes. It resides in the server instead of the client, unless they are shared memory pixmaps, in which case it will be counted on both the server and client side.

You can often help Debian and upstream driver maintainers fix problems by narrowing down exactly where a crash or lockup is. You don't need to do this when filing an initial bug report you can do it for any problem you can reproduce and follow-up to an existing bug report. The reportbug program will give you the opportunity to add information to an already-filed report when it displays the list of bugs already filed against a package.