Javier Perez wrote: > Hmmm > > I did a groupremove of the X Windows System. > It erased X and KDE as expected. Figuring out that in order to have KDE > I need to have X, I did a groupinstall of KDE. Kdebase and all its gang > was installed, but X was left out!!!???? > > When I did 'startx', the systems could not because X was missing. > > I would have thought that kdebase needed xorg-server-x11 at the very > least to launch kde. > How come they are not linked together? > X is a client/server application. The X server does not need to be running on the same machine as the client. One example of this is a terminal server with a bunch of thin clients acting as X terminals. KDE runs on the terminal server, but the X server is running on the clients. You never start an X server on the terminal server. One thing that makes these discussions confusing is that the X server is the part that manages the keyboard, pointing device (mouse) and display. So the X server runs on the client machine. The KDE desktop is an X client program. So you have the client program running on the terminal server, and the X server running on the client machine. It takes extra effort to keep then straight. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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