Well, I would remember that OpenOffice/StarOffice are GTK applications...not KDE apps so fighting with KDE isn't going to solve your problem. What's most likely your issue is the fact that your Xserver is having issue's parseing the font lists in your truetype directory. When this goes wanky on me. I do this. Login to root: cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype rm -f fonts.dir fonts.scale* ttmkfdir | grep -v "^[[:digit:]]*$" > fonts.scale.msttfonts SuSEconfig --module fonts And see what happens. If you end up with these three files: fonts.dir fonts.scale fonts.scale.msttfonts Then cd /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts xftcache mkfontdir * And as a user..do this which will make your current running X server see the fonts available. xset fp rehash It's not a KDE issue believe me. :) :: ::Tomorrow, somebody will point out what I've ::foolishly missed, and I'll have to apologize to ::the KDE developers... or not. :: -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.