1. Double-click on "Terminal" icon on the emerald desktop to start a terminal window. 2. In the terminal window, type "gxterm" to create a special "xgterm" window; it will pop up its own graphical window to show graphs and plots from IRAF automatically Leave the regular "Terminal" window alone -- maybe minimize it 3. Double-click on "ds9" icon to start an "SAOImage ds9" window.