Hi and thanks to all of you for the replies > Perhaps your XF86Config-4 is not correctly pointing to the font > server. My XF86Config-4 contains: > > 7100 is the default port for xfs so I have no explicit option for this > in /etc/X11/fs/config XF86C point has the correct line for the font server on my system it is actually port 7110 i also have the fonts installed and as i said xfontsel 'sees' them imre