There has been some helpful discussion of the setting up of X11. Perhaps this is a good time to ask some of mine.
1. How can I get the command C-g in emacs to work under X11 the same as it does in a console? Several times my machine or screen seemed to lock up when I used this command three times. In the (virtual, that is) console, the emacs process is put into the background. Can I disable or enable something in emacs to prevent the lockup? Can I do something in X, likewise? 2. Under X11 as it is configured on my 640 x 480 low end color LCD (Toshiba T1910), many applications I would like to use, such as xpaint, tgif, xfig, not to mention ghostview, run at a size that is large than the screen can show at once. Is there something I can do to configure the size of an application? (resolution problem?) I think this has nothing to do with virtual screen size and I think it has nothing to do with the xresource for dimension. For example, to use tgif I will have to shift the virtual screen around to cover all parts of the drawn surface, and again shift to get access to buttons. This is a ubiqitous problem. I am using the VGA16 server. 3. On mouses and lockups and switching from VC's to X11. I am now sure that my problem with switching VC's has something to do with the inability to switch back and forth between two mouse setups. When I don't run gpm, this problem (wherein the system seems to lock up after a switchover) is much reduced or often eliminated. With the new gpm 1.06, the problem seems to have worsened for me. What could I do to eliminate this problem? Alan Davis