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(′eks ′ser·vər)

(computer science) Software that draws the screen image and handles standard input in an X Windows System; in contrast to typical usage of the term server, an X server is located on the user's computer; the client is the application that is displayed, which may be located on a remote node of the network.

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The software in an X Window system that renders images to the display screen. X servers are the user's desktop or laptop machine. In the early days of X Window, X terminals were widely used, which were hardware dedicated only to X server rendering. See PC X server and X Window. See also Xserve.

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