Hi, After a lot of mucking around I found a solution to my problem of TrueType fonts were not available in Gimp but were available to all the KDE applications. Still don't really know why KDE was displaying them when they were not even in the Xserver. Here is the solution. All commands must be run as root. 1) Change to where the fonts are. cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype 2) Determine if there are any files been created for the scaling of the ttf's. ls -l fonts.s* 3) Remove all these files. rm fonts.s* 4) Create a new font scale file. ttmkfdir | sed s/^[0-9]*// > fonts.scale.myfonts 5) Now run SuSEconfig.fonts /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.fonts 6) Run xset to reread the font paths xset fp rehash You should be able to see the fonts with xfontsel Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------