Thanks to someone of the list I'm installing the GAIM 0.64 if I'm not wrong, and after many many hours (I don't know why is still so difficult for me to install something in linux) I did it, to find out that the font has the same trouble as evolution, it's based on the GTK-html "thing". In many how-to and other documents, people say that changing the font size in the gnomecc can fix it, and I tried but I get the following error "ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID -1073746912 was rejected by the authentication mechanism!" Can someone explain to me whats's this? and how can I do to fix my fonts? In the case that I try to use gnome-control-center, it works while I have that window open. It also change my background to the bluecurve background and don't let me anymore use my desktop. Anyone??? Thanks in advance Juan C.