Sounds like you need to join a BSD list. There are some BSD groups that have a very strong presence on the web. I think you will gain more from those than from this one, where you get either no responses are a non-response like mine. > > > I've also been learning tmux as an alternative to X. My complaint > > about that is the font is too big. I haven't figured out how to change > > it. When I run 'env' from within tmux, TERM is set to `screen`. > > Font is not the right word. I'm not sure what to use instead > maybe text or characters. I will be pedantic. It is not an "alternative to X', although I know what you mean. X is a lot more than terminals being displayed. tmux is a terminal multiplexer, which is short for "I have several shells open and send a depth-aware superposition of their contents to a single terminal across a serial-like line".