I still do not understand what the problem with the fonts is, but it turns out that the vnc4server does not exhibit this problem. (It picks an unusually small font, but at least I can read it.) -- Alexander Wagner Department of Physics, North Dakota State University tel: (701) 231 9582 fax: (701) 231 7088 email: alexander.wagner@ndsu.edu http://www.physics.ndsu.nodak.edu/wagner.htm