David Freeman david_freeman@rocketmail.com writes:

I have heard compiling X is something of a black art, is this the case?

No, it's an apt-get sequence.

as you know I have know problem compiling my own programs for th OS.

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I only need X 4 for Quake and Herione warrior, can you use unstable packages with a stable release?

Not usually, but people have packaged X'4 for stable too. I installed it on a tsw machine recently and it worked happily, although two packages had dodgy dependencies against X'3 and had to be recompiled.