After almost 15 years of running emacs predominantly on linux in terminal mode, I am planning on switching my workflow completely to MacOS. At the same time, I have experimented with the capabilities of emacs running in a window/graphical system instead of the terminal interface. Both experiences have been pleasant so far, particularly the fact that I can now view images in emacs buffers :-O However, there have been some issues that I have had to address, so here it goes.