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This is true, although entertainingly, the "server" part has always been easily confused.
In X11, the "server" runs on your local machine, and the "client" frequently runs on a remote system.
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mananaysiempre • yesterday at 11:44 PM
Yes, it’s simultaneously logical if you look at how it works and immensely strange if you don’t understand the architecture. (As has been noted all the way back to the UNIX-HATERS Handbook[1], although, pace 'DonHopkins, the NeWS Book uses the same terminology—possibly because it was written late enough to contain promises of X11/NeWS.)
[1] https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/unix-haters/x-window...
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The server runs on the machine that allows clients to connect to it. What is the confusing part about this?