Hello! X clients can either use fonts supplied via libfontconfig or request them from the X server. The X server is configured like this: checking for root directory for font files... /opt/local/share/fonts checking for directory for misc files... ${FONTROOTDIR}/misc checking for directory for OTF files... ${FONTROOTDIR}/OTF checking for directory for TTF files... ${FONTROOTDIR}/TTF checking for directory for Type1 files... ${FONTROOTDIR}/Type1 checking for directory for 75dpi files... ${FONTROOTDIR}/75dpi checking for directory for 100dpi files... ${FONTROOTDIR}/100dpi checking for ${prefix}/etc/X11/fontpath.d... no checking for default font path... ${FONTROOTDIR}/misc/,${FONTROOTDIR}/ TTF/,${FONTROOTDIR}/OTF/,${FONTROOTDIR}/Type1/,${FONTROOTDIR}/100dpi/,$ {FONTROOTDIR}/75dpi/,/Library/Fonts,/System/Library/Fonts Xfontsel uses the X server. When I select "apple" as foundry, i.e., I select fonts from /Library/Fonts or /System/Library/Fonts (why is there no ~/Library/Fonts?), it crashes. The xfontsel I am writing of is /usr/X11/bin/xfontsel from the X11 update 2.5.0 (Leopard 10.5.8 PPC, build 9L31a). When I select any Unicode encoded OT font, found in some other directory in my font path addition, xfontsel fails to display any glyphs. It looks to me as if the X server cannot deliver fonts derived from OT fonts. It even often crashes when I select such a font from its names display... -- Greetings <] Pete o __o |__ o recumbo ___o /I -\<, |o \ -\),-% ergo sum! ___/\ /\___./ \___...O/ O____.....`-O-'-()--o_________________