gEDA-user: cat to chase rate (duplicate)

[DJ Delorie]

> How does one go about making the rats disappear when a trace is
> routed?

The 'o' key.

> There is always a bit of rat left between the endpoints of the
> pad/pin and trace - not all of my pads line up nicely on the grid -
> even though the trace overlaps the pin/pad by a substantial amount.

This usually means your traces and your pads are not on the same
layer.  Check your layer group to make sure the 'c' and 's' (component
and solder) layers are tagged along with the layers you think are
component and solder.