Caveat: The documentation describes a rather old version of the GFXCTL class. When in doubt, use the source. In order to make the GFX extension work, add libs = -ltermcap -lX11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib to the libs variable of your $HOME/.txrc file. If this file does not already exist, copy it from $T3XDIR/system.txrc If you plan to install this class in the T3X class hierarchy, above change should be applied directly to $T3XDIR/system.txrc In this case, you should also copy the 'font.vf' file to $T3XDIR/lib/system.vf