sound over VNC to osx?

david at rysdam.org david at rysdam.org
Sun Sep 22 13:47:32 EDT 2013


The length of your explanation only proves my point about it being, as I said, "non-obvious".

John Abreau <jabr at gapps.blu.org> wrote:
>
>On Sep 21, 2013, at 9:21 PM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:
>
>> Wait. Maybe I got that backward, given the non-obvious client/server
>> terminology 
>
>
>I've always found those complaints silly and pointless. A server
>provides central 
>control of shared resources and manages client requests for those
>resources. 
>
>An X server manages keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen real estate
>
>that X clients such as firefox and xterm request. It would be silly to
>describe 
>firefox and xterm as "servers" that can only accept a single client
>connection, 
>and the desktop as a "client" that connects to an arbitrarily large
>number of 
>servers simultaneously. 
>
>Especially when those firefox and xterm instances are not constantly
>running 
>in the background to listen for requests from the desktop; it's the
>desktop that 
>listens for connections from xterms and firefox.
>
>I see complaints about the terminology as a reflection of fuzzy
>thinking people 
>inherit from the PC world, where users are discouraged from
>understanding 
>the tools that they depend on. 
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