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readme: minor rewrite of server/daemon section

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@ -202,14 +202,12 @@ When run normally, **foot** is a single-window application; if you
want another window, start another foot process.
However, foot can also be run in a _server_ mode. In this mode, one
process hosts multiple windows. Note that this is **nothing** like
tabs. When first started in server mode, **no** windows are available.
process hosts multiple windows. All Wayland communication, VT parsing
and rendering is done in the server process.
You open new windows by running `footclient`. This is a small process
that instructs the foot server to open a new terminal window. The
client process remains running until the terminal window is
closed. The exit value of the client process is that of the shell that
was running in the terminal window.
New windows are opened by running `footclient`, which remains running
until the terminal window is closed, at which point it exits with the
exit value of the client process (typically the shell).
The point of this mode is **a)** reduced memory footprint - all
terminal windows will share fonts and glyph cache, and **b)** reduced