hi, I just did a fresh slackware 9.0 install, but it didnt have fontconfig, so I followed instructions on fontconfig.org on compiling/installing. Everything installed fine, but I cant start applications. Here''s all it says, I''ve edited the fonts.conf file and added in the font dirs. from XF86Config No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig library is not correctly configured. You may need to edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual page and on http://fontconfig.org Please help, again, sorry for bothering. Neil __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com