Andrew Howell writes: > open("/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6.0", O_RDONLY) = 3 Here's the problem I think. Axe is compiled to use Xaw not Xaw3d. I do not even have Xaw3d on my system. So I assume you installed that locally. Please tell me if it works with Xaw if you can try that. Michael -- Michael Meskes Lehrstuhl fuer angewandte Mathematik insb. Informatik RWTH-Aachen, D-52056 Aachen, Germany email: meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de