Using Remote X-Windows Clients
Because of the design of X-Windows, applications can be run on a host and have their output and input redirected to a remote host. This can be useful, for example, if you have graphical applications on a server and you need to be able to control them from a workstation. In a way, it is similar to simply using Telnet or SSH to log in to a remote system and then run a text-based application. The application is actually running on the server. The output and input is just being sent to your system. X-Windows extends this concept to graphical applications as well as text-based applications. However, this capability is disabled by default and needs to be enabled before it can be used.
The confusing aspect of this is that ...
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