After a fair bit of reading and experimenting, I am stumped... mostly because I don't know what the error message I am getting really means. I've added some TTF fonts I need for a project I am working on. They work fine in all applications except The GIMP... which is where I need them. I did some reading, and the instuctions seem simple... put your TTFs in a convenient location (mine are in /usr/share/fonts/truetype) ttmkfdir > fonts.dir in your font directory. xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/truetype xset fp rehash. When I do the xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/truetype part I get an error: ------------------------------------------- X Error of failed request: 86 Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) Serial number of failed request: 8 Current serial number in output stream: 10 ------------------------------------------- OK, nice, but what does this mean? I know what the fp+ is supposed to do... it's supposed to append the new font path to current font path. I've checked and it is not appended... yet. As I said, I'm stumped here... suggestions? Clayton