Got it working. Did apt-get install --reinstall on everything gtk2 I could find, that didn't help. Then did:
phil@eeep:/usr$ set | grep gtk GTK2_RC_FILES=/home/phil/.gtkrc-2.0-kde-kde4:/home/phil/.kde3/share/config/gtkrc-2.0 GTK_MODULES=canberra-gtk-module GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/phil/.gtkrc:/home/phil/.kde3/share/config/gtkrc LD_PRELOAD=/opt/kde3/lib/kgtk/libkgtk2.so: phil@eeep:/usr$ export GTK_MODULES= phil@eeep:/usr$ export LD_PRELOAD= phil@eeep:/usr$ export GTK2_RC_FILES= phil@eeep:/usr$ export GTK_RC_FILES= phil@eeep:/usr$ set | grep gtk phil@eeep:/usr$ gnumeric and Gnumeric came up fine. Narrowed it down to LD_PRELOAD - with some more digging, found a file: /opt/kde3/share/kgtk/preload which contains the single line: /opt/kde3/lib/kgtk/libkgtk2.so The systems with a working Gnumeric don't have that "preload" file. So, I renamed it to "preload_hold", logged out, logged back in, and it's all good. I'll send a note to the Trinity (Kubuntu KDE3 project) to see if they know what that preload's all about. It may still be an issue with Gnumeric, since it doesn't work with this libkgtk2.so and Gimp does, but it may also be a problem with libkgtk2.so... Thanks, Phil Salkie _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list