I've just updated my versio of LyX, since the old version started dying for a reason I can't pinpoint (many changes since I last used it). Anyway when I put the new versio of LyX on my system the fonts all came out as "fixed". Now after spending considerable time on this I found that XListFonts() was returning font names with "--" in it. This looked weird to me since I'm used to seeing only "-*-" in xfontsel. Anyway XLoadFont() wasn't accepting the font names and so all the fonts were reverting to "fixed". I eventually got around this problem by changing the "--" to "-nil-" (always appears in the sans-serif position) in my fonts.dir file. The fonts.dir files hadn't been changed since the original installation. Does anyone know why XLoadFont() isn't accepting these names with "--" in it? More importantly is there a way to get it to work properly. I've just discovered that the Athena Widget now works in a better font. Both precompiled binaries and home-made binaries did the same thing. Linux-2.0.33 System XFree86-3.1.2.0 pc-linux-libc5 Thanks in advance Rich
